MALTA, 4 December 2013- Acunetix today announced the beta release of its latest product, Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner. Responsive, scalable and centralised with unmatched deep crawling and scanning capabilities, Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner promises to help businesses of any size protect their websites, web applications…
Critical vulnerabilities discovered in Gazelle and TBDEV.net
Gazelle and TBDEV.NET are the most popular web applications used as BitTorrent trackers. A BitTorrent tracker is an application that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent trackers can be public/open where anybody can join or private (where an invitation is…
Acunetix WVS v9, build 20131009 checks for HTML Injection, detection of weak passwords in Joomla! and Django
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20131009 includes checks for HTML Injection, and adds the detection of weak passwords in Joomla! and Django’s Administrative interfaces. In addition, the new build includes the detection of readme documentation files, together with various other updates and fixes….
Free WordPress Security Plugin by Acunetix
Do you have a WordPress site? Are you concerned about your site’s security? Then make sure you download the completely free WordPress Security Plugin. Powered by Acunetix, the plugin is a free and comprehensive security tool that helps you secure your WordPress installation and suggests…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9 build 20130904 introduces detection of BREACH and CRIME SSL vulnerabilities
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20130904 contains various new features including the detection of BREACH and CRIME SSL / TLS vulnerabilities, the detection of vulnerabilities in OpenX and vBulletin, and various other improvements. New Functionality Implemented the detection for BREACH vulnerabilities. Implemented the…
Acunetix Announces Full HTML5 Support
As new technologies bring new security risks to light, Acunetix steps up to the challenge with the most comprehensive crawling and scanning technology in the market yet. MALTA, 15 August 2013 — Acunetix today announced the 9th release of its award-winning Web Vulnerability Scanner, building on the experience…
Acunetix WVS Update 20130308 – New Security Tests
Apart from the usual bug fixes / new functionality, each Acunetix WVS update generally includes new vulnerability tests or an improvement to existing checks. In this post, I would like to summarize the new security tests added in the latest Acunetix WVS update. Unicode Transformation…
The US National Vulnerability Database was Hacked and Infected with Malware
The US National Vulnerability Database has been hacked and infected with malware on the 8th of March 2013. Until today, the same place from where both black hats and white hats get information about existing software vulnerabilities, is still offline (15th of May 2013). So…
Cyber-Espionage Now Considered a Direct Threat to American Economic Interests
Cyber-espionage, particularly for gathering economic intelligence, no longer looms on the horizon – according to the US government it is now a clear and present danger. Ellen Nakashima, a security reporter for The Washington Post, provided a brief summary of the findings of the National…