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Acunetix

Acunetix was founded to combat the alarming rise in web attacks. Its flagship product, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, is the result of several years of development by a team of highly experienced security developers. Acunetix is a privately held company with headquarters based in Europe (Malta), a US office in Seattle, Washington and an office in London, UK. For more information about Acunetix, visit: http://www.acunetix.com; http://www.acunetix.de.

Company News

70% of websites at immediate risk of being hacked!
Acunetix reveals latest statistics based on one year of conducting web application scans
Acunetix puts a stop to identity theft in Universities
American Universities and Non-Profit-Organizations to benefit from a Free Website Security Audit offered by Acunetix
Al Qaeda Cyber Attacks against Databases and Servers
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a warning of possible cyber attacks by Islamic militant groups associated with the Al Qaeda network.

Products

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
Automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities

Web Site Security Centre

How to Check for and Prevent SQL Injection Attacks
Firewalls and similar intrusion detection mechanisms provide little defense against full-scale web attacks.
The Nature of Web Application Security
Web application security is critical to any organization with a website
What is Cross Site Scripting?
Cross Site Scripting (also known as XSS or CSS) generally occurs when a dynamic web page gathers malicious data from a user and displays the input on the page without it being properly validated.
What is SQL Injection?
SQL injection is a hacking technique which attempts to pass SQL commands through a web application for execution by a backend database.

White Papers

Are AJAX Applications Vulnerable to Hack Attacks?
This paper reviews AJAX technologies with specific reference to JavaScript and briefly documents the kinds of vulnerability classes that should raise security concerns among developers, website owners and the respective visitors. The proposed solution suggests auditing AJAX and JavaScript based applications with a web vulnerability scanner that not only parses the HTML code of a webpage to identify embedded JavaScript, but also executes the code. Automating the process is also key when considering the increasing complexity of such web applications.
The Importance of Web Application Scanning
This white paper explains the need for web application security, the most popular web attacks and how a company can use a web application scanning tool to prevent attacks and ensure web site security.


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