by Cecilia Obas | Nov 10, 2019 | Fastest Web Scanning Engine, Security, Software License Optimization, Software Updater, Software Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Management, Web Security, Web Vulnerability Scanner
Search engine optimization poisoning (SEO poisoning) is a term used to describe two types of activities: Illegitimate techniques used to achieve high search engine ranking, usually (but not only) to attack visitorsExploiting vulnerabilities on existing high-ranking...
by Cecilia Obas | Nov 3, 2019 | Fastest Web Scanning Engine, Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, Web Security, Web Vulnerability Scanner
The web is everywhere and it’s not an exaggeration. More and more application manufacturers move from dedicated desktop interfaces to web interfaces. You are probably using a web-based email system. Chances are that you are creating your documents using a web...
by Cecilia Obas | Oct 21, 2019 | Cyber security, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, Web Security, Web Vulnerability Scanner
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.190927120) has been released. This new build introduces a number of updates including ad-blocking in the scanner resulting in faster scans, support for Session HTTP headers, the ability to run scans for vulnerabilities introduced...
by Cecilia Obas | Oct 14, 2019 | Cyber security, Fastest Web Scanning Engine, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, Web Security, Web Vulnerability Scanner, Workspace Management
The year 2019 so far has seen its share of major security and data breaches. Unsurprisingly, they were not caused by new cybercriminal techniques but by the same ones that have plagued information security for up to two decades. Social engineering and cyberattacks on...
by Cecilia Obas | Sep 19, 2019 | Cyber security, Fastest Web Scanning Engine, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, Web Security, Web Vulnerability Scanner
One of the best ways to verify the security posture of a business is to perform a mock attack. This principle is behind the concept of penetration testing (manual mock attack) and vulnerability scanning (automatic mock attack). While penetration tests and...
by Cecilia Obas | Sep 10, 2019 | Cyber security, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, Web Security, Web Vulnerability Scanner
DOM-based Cross-site Scripting (DOM XSS) is a particular type of a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability. It uses the Document Object Model (DOM), which is a standard way to represent HTML objects in a hierarchical manner. As with all other Cross-site Scripting...
