A report accompanied with a rating taxonomy aimed to help researchers and customers to determine appropriate payouts for bugs found by researchers in bug bounty programs has recently been released by Bugcrowd. These tools, especially the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT), which details a number of…
RSA Conference 2016 highlights
The Acunetix team has returned from a successful trip to San Francisco where they exhibited at RSA Conference 2016. This week-long conference was attended by over 30,000 security professionals. Chris Martin, General Manager; Nicholas Sciberras, Product Manager; Ian Muscat, Product Communications Manager and Tamara Naudi,…
Acunetix voted WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award winner
LONDON, February 29, 2016 – Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Web Application Security category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards. “Our Readers’ Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to…
What’s new in CVSS version 3
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for assessing the severity of security vulnerabilities, designed in such a way that makes it independent from any vendor or industry. In our previous blog post, we discussed CVSS v3 and how Acunetix provides support…
Acunetix briefing at RSA Conference 2016
We are pleased to announce that our Product Communications Manager, Ian Muscat, will be presenting a briefing, at RSA Conference, entitled “Detecting Stealthy Web Application Vulnerabilities Automatically”. The briefing will be held on Thursday 3rd March at 1130 in the South Expo. See invite below…
Cybersecurity National Action Plan: Obama Outlines Plans to Spend $19 billion on Cybersecurity
On February 9th President Obama announced the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, including steps such as establishing a cybersecurity commission, introducing new safeguarding measures and supporting both companies and consumers in strengthening their own security. He’s also put the money where his mouth is and backed…
Acunetix v10.5 assigns CVSS 3.0 scoring to its vulnerabilities
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for assessing the severity of security vulnerabilities. “Common” being the keyword, indicating that CVSS is designed to not only be independent to a specific vendor or industry, but also interoperable across systems that vary in…
Drupal Security: Top tips to secure your Drupal application
Drupal is a very popular Content Management System (CMS) on the Internet today. Drupal security should be at the forefront of anyone running a Drupal site, especially if running older versions of the CMS or it’s modules, since these are a ripe target for attackers….
Joomla! Security Tips: Securing Configurations
Heads up — Depending on your web server’s configuration for active extensions, the following could break some functionality. It is strongly advised to try out any configuration in a testing/staging environment before changing any configuration on production servers Prevent Directory Listing Directory Listing occurs when…