Ever since the Heartbleed bug disaster, you’d think companies are becoming more vigilant with their web security plan. Recent events seem to show evidence to the contrary, with millions of users’ data left exposed to cyber-attacks on popularly used websites, including a government website and…
Analysis of an Intrusion: Backdoors
The concept of “Backdoor” has seen many interpretations during the relatively short history of the Internet. Microsoft defines Backdoors as “A hidden entrance to a computer system that can be used to bypass security policies”, and, in essence, that is what they are. A Backdoor…
Core Causes of Web Security Risks and What You Can do About Them
Samuel Johnson, an 18th century lexicographer, once said “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” That’s precisely what we’re seeing with web security today. We get caught up in our day-to-day work and the…
Vulnerable Network Devices: A Growing Concern
Network devices, except maybe firewalls, are not usually perceived as security sensitive assets. Manufacturers and users do not invest time in assessing the security state of routers and switches. IT admins, handling business IT infrastructures, are mainly concerned with uptime when it comes to network…
What You Don’t Know About Web Security CAN Hurt You
How secure is your web environment? You know, your business’ marketing website, your customer-facing web applications, your internal financials application, the various cloud services that process and store business assets, and so on. Many business executives don’t have the slightest idea about the security of…
Acunetix Exhibited at Infosecurity Europe 2014
Acunetix participated in this year’s Infosecurity event at Earls Court, London. Infosecurity Europe is considered to be the biggest free-to-attend information security event in Europe – and the 19th edition of this event held up to its reputation. From April 29th till May 1st, Infosecurity…
JSON/XML Input and Google Web ToolkitTM support with Latest Version of Acunetix
Manipulation of JSON/XML Input, Google Web ToolkitTM support and new .NET 4.5 AcuSensor are just some of the new features available in the latest version of Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner. London, May 8, 2014 – Acunetix have just announced the launch of a new version of…
More comprehensive scanning with Acunetix WVS v9.5 – Part II
In addtion to full JSON and XML support (already covered in Part I), Acunetix WVS version 9.5 includes other improvements that increase the scan coverage and improves its abilities to find vulnerabilities. In this blog post, I will cover CRUD support, Host header testing and…
More comprehensive scanning with Acunetix WVS v9.5 – Part I
In these 2 articles, I will be detailing the new functionality introduced in Acunetix WVS version 9.5. An important update introduced in the new version of Acunetix WVS is full JSON and XML support. If you are scanning a web application that is exchanging data…