It comes as no surprise that the value of the application security market has risen dramatically in the last few years. Simple deduction tells us bigger cyber-attacks = more money spent on cyber defense. However, the latest claim by market analysts is that by 2021,…
Acunetix to exhibit at Infosecurity Europe 2016
Acunetix is proud to once again be exhibiting at Infosecurity Europe to be held at Olympia London between 7-9 June 2016. Infosecurity Europe is the region’s premier conference and exhibition for the Information Security community. With 320+ leading vendors, service providers and thought leaders plus over…
Scanning non-public web applications with Acunetix Online
The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is full of challenges — developers have strict deadlines for creating functional, scalable, maintainable and testable code. What’s more, that code needs to be secure. Acunetix Online among other features, acts as an IP vulnerability scanner and can automatically…
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2016
So, it’s that time of year again. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is out and its time for us to take a good look and analyze their results. The cover, which is dark featuring an illuminati-style symbol and the pull out statistic of ‘89%…
GoDaddy Blind XSS vulnerability – How to detect it and other Out-of-Band Vulnerabilities
Recently, security researcher Matthew Bryant discovered a blind cross-site scripting (BXSS) vulnerability in GoDaddy’s customer support portal —that is the portal accessible only to GoDaddy customer service representatives, not customers. New post: Poisoning the Well – Compromising GoDaddy Customer Support With Blind XSS – https://t.co/uEJWPU8Y4O —…
Acunetix participates at the ISACA Malta Chapter 2016
Acunetix participated at the ISACA Malta Chapter Biennial Conference held at Hilton Malta, St. Julians on the 13th of May 2016. The conference dealt with “Protecting Privacy in an Information-Driven Economy”. The ISACA Malta Chapter is a voluntary organisation which was officially formed in 2005…
In the headlines: ImageMagick vulnerability, HIV patient data leak, Brazilian WhatsApp suspension and more
ImageMagick vulnerability being exploited in the wild Following its reveal last week, hackers are leaping on the ImageMagick vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to execute code on servers using the the vulnerable library frequently used to crop or resize images. ImageMagick is a popular…
PCI-DSS 3.2 released – Summary of Changes
The new version of PCI-DSS 3.2 has just been released, so having been through it with a fine toothcomb here are the most noteworthy changes, additions and clarifications, in the order in which they appear in the report. This new standard 3.2 is due to…
The latest build of Acunetix updates PCI DSS and NIST compliance reports
Acunetix v10.5 build 20160504 has been released. This new build updates the PCI DSS and the NIST compliance reports with the requirements of PCI DSS 3.2 and NIST 800-53 rev4 respectively. The new build also fixes an important bug uncovered earlier this week. Improvements Updated…