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XSS vulnerabilities (Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities) are often overshadowed by their big cousin, the infamous SQL Injection. This does not make them any less effective or deadly. XSS and SQL Injection attacks are similar in the way they inject malicious code. The difference is that an…

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An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 was released.  This new build, numbered 20111005, includes two new features (support for a wider variety of web applications), a good number of improvements to the PHP AcuSensor technology, and also a minor bug fix….

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An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 was released.  This new build (20110920) includes the new Firefox plugin which supports FireFox version 6, a new security check for the Apache web server and a number of application bug fixes. New security check…

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The following features complete the Acunetix WVS scanning arsenal: Innovative AcuSensor technology Web server configuration detection Web server security scan (Port Scanner) against services such as DNS, SSH etc Dictionary (brute force) attacker to test password strength of login pages or HTTP authentication Report Generator…

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Some websites are designed to use custom 404 error pages instead of a web browser’s standard error page because they can be branded and made to contain links to other important pages. If your website uses custom 404 error pages which generate different error codes,…

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An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 was released.  This new build (20110823) includes the new Firefox plugin which supports ireFox version 5, two new security checks and a bug fix in the automated WSDL web service scanner. New Security checks Complex…

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An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 was released.  This new build (20110711) features improved Cross-Site scripting (XSS) web security checks, an improved crawler, better web 2.0 support and a number of bug fixes. New feature:     Included IMAGE tag with source…

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An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 has now been released.  The new build features a number of bug fixes. Bug Fixes: Fixed: The Acusensor Technology files were updated incorrectly. Fixed: Access Violation when scan is stopped. Fixed: User interface incorrect behaviour….

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An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 has now been released.  The new build features a new improvement with the AcuSensor details as well as fixing a few bugs to bolster stability. New feature: AcuSensor details are now exported in the report…

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