In her 5 December article in The New York Times, “For PC Virus Victims, Pay or Else,” cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth discusses the growing threat of ransomware in the USA. Ransomware is a type of malware that takes your computer hostage, freezing it until you…
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An Unhappy New Year – Security Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities
Earlier this month, on the Security Week website, Steve Ragan published an article about a security researcher who posted several vulnerabilities to the Full Disclosure mailing list – seven of these are MySQL vulnerabilities. The complete list of vulnerabilities is available here. CVE assignments have…
Have a Merry WordPress 3.5 Christmas! Make it Last All Year with Acunetix
The folks over at WordPress released WordPress 3.5 on 11 December. A veritable Christmas present for bloggers and developers, WordPress 3.5 is chock full of new features and improvements. The most dramatic improvement is a re-imagined flow for uploading photos and creating galleries. WordPress 3.5 also includes…
Acunetix Support Availability During the Festive Season
Kindly note that the Acunetix Support Team will operate normally the last week of December 2012 and the first week of January 2013 with the following exceptions: 24 December – open until 6pm CET (GMT +1). 25, 26 December – closed 27 and 28 December…
New Acunetix WVS Build Includes ISO 27001 Template
We’ve just released a new version of Acunetix WVS version 8 – build 20121213 – which includes several new security checks such as the new module that tests Slow HTTP Denial of Service attacks like Slowloris. We’ve also added a good number of improvements and bug…
2012 – The Year Hacking Became a Political Weapon
On 30 November Reuters reported that Anonymous will shut down Syrian government websites worldwide to fight the government’s countrywide Internet blackout, which many believe was put into effect to silence opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. According to Martin Chulov of The Guardian, in his 29…
It Fell Off a Truck: Top Ten US Data Breaches for 2012
According to Ericka Chickowski in her 29 November article for Dark Reading, “10 Top Government Data Breaches Of 2012,” SQL injection, post-phishing and inadequately secured back-up information all contributed to spectacular comprises of data across the USA in 2012. Some of the breaches were the…
It’s No Picnic: NBC Websites Hacked
On November 4th, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet, who covers security, posted on his blog that NBC had suffered a hack on a number of its websites during the early morning of Sunday, November 4th. According to Vaughn-Nichols, as of noon Eastern Standard Time the…
New and Improved Security Features with Acunetix Update 20121113
We’ve just released an update for Acunetix Web Vulnerability 8 – build 20121113 – which gives you a brand new PHP code execution test for Invision Power Board, as well as a number of improvements and fixes. New Security Checks New PHP code execution test for Invision Power…