The Acunetix Team today announced an updated build of the Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 (WVS 8). The new build, number 20120326, includes new security checks that detect even more vulnerabilities as well as a series of bug fixes. New Security Checks Acunetix WVS…
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Acunetix Parses Version Control Systems
A lot of developers are using version control systems such as SVN (Apache Subversion) and GIT in order to track changes in their source code. These types of server tools are essential for the organizations which have multi-developer projects. Most of these version control systems…
New Features in Acunetix WVS: Crawling of Websites with Different User-Agent Strings
Note: This article refers to an older version of Acunetix. Click here to download the latest version. When you visit a website your browser sends an HTTP header called “User-Agent” to the web server. This header indicates which web browser you are using, its version…
FAQ: Large log files fill up your Hard Disk when using Acunetix
When running several large scans (using the Scheduler, for example), you may encounter a situation where you run out of hard disk space for the logs generated by the scans. It would be useful to be able to redirect the logs folder to some other…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 Build 20120305
The Acunetix Team is pleased to announce an updated build of the Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 (WVS 8). This new built includes new security checks for more vulnerabilities, bug fixes as well as a series of new and improved features. New Security Checks…
Checking For Vulnerabilities in Path Fragments
Note: This article refers to an older version of Acunetix. Click here to download the latest version. Nowadays, more and more people are using URL rewrite techniques to increase their “friendliness” to both users and search engines. With URL rewrites, a URL like http://www.site.com/cms/product.php?action=buy&id=1 is…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 Combats Rise in Web Hacking Attacks
New Automation & Auto-Configuration Features Make Securing Your Website Easier and Faster London, 16th Feburary 2012 — Acunetix, a name on the forefront of the web application security industry, today announced the 8th version of its popular Web Vulnerability Scanner product. Through this new iteration of…
Acunetix WVS 8 Released Candidate Now Available!
We are pleased to announce a Release Candidate (RC) of the much-awaited Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, version 8. This build fixes issues that were reported during the Beta stages of development and also adds a number of improvements which boost the accuracy of checks and…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 Now BETA 2
As the BETA program for Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 keeps gaining momentum, all the great feedback received from our BETA participants has helped us achieve the BETA 2 milestone. This brings a significant number of improvements to WVS 8, including new usability features, component…