Acunetix is to be exhibited in the New Exhibitor’s Zone at Infosecurity Europe at Earls Court from the 29th of April till the 1st of May. Infosecurity Europe is the largest free-to attend information security business and education event in Europe – offering attendees the…
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The ROI of Protecting Against Cross-site Scripting
The ways in which your organization can be damaged by Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks are endless. Apart from the damage it can cause on its own, successful cross-site scripting can be used as a platform for delivering even more devastating attacks. First, the attack impacts…
Acunetix Presents at Comguard Roadshow, Qatar
The Doha Marriott Hotel, Qatar, played host to the ‘Emerging Threats: New Trends and Risk Visibility’ Comguard event for end-users, held on March 12, 2014. Acunetix was exhibited by Mr. Damian Fearnley, Regional Sales Manager for EMEA, who also presented a high-level overview of Acuentix to 40…
Non-Persistent Cross-site scripting: Non-persistent XSS
Non-Persistent cross-site scripting or non-persistent XSS, also known as Reflected XSS, is one of the three major categories of XSS attacks, the others are; persistent (or Stored) XSS and DOM-based XSS. In general, XSS attacks are based on the victim’s browser trust in a legitimate,…
ClickJacking and Blind XSS
What you see is NOT what you get! In essence, ClickJacking (or UI redressing) is a technique used by attackers to trick users into clicking on malicious web pages that they wouldn’t have accessed otherwise, by overlaying them on apparently legitimate web pages and hiding…
Acunetix Wins WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award
Acunetix WVS was selected as the 2014 Readers’ Choice Award winner in the Web Application Security category. IT consultants, IT managers, and Network and System Administrators alike voted for Acunetix WVS as their top choice for Web Application Security. WindowSecurity.com is a Microsoft Windows Security resource site, with…
Universal Cross-site Scripting (UXSS): The Making of a Vulnerability
What is Universal Cross-site Scripting (UXSS)? Common cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks target websites or web applications that are vulnerable to XSS, because of inadequate development of client-side or server-side code. These attacks have the vulnerable web page as main prerequisite, and their effect is always…
Top Targets of Blind XSS
Web-based security threats are a popular topic and you can easily find related information, including on cross-site scripting and one of its important flavors, Blind XSS. However, although this information is usually delivered at a high level of detail, the description of the possible targets…
Acunetix Launch Online Vulnerability Scanner
MALTA, March 6, 2014 — Acunetix today announced the launch of Online Vulnerability Scanner. Combining the benefits of an online solution with Acunetix’ advanced scanning and crawling technology, Acunetix OVS is meant for businesses of any size that want to protect their critical websites, web…