Released on: 9, August 2007
, Author: Tamara Naudi
, Audience: Software related
London, UK 9 August, 2007 Acunetix has released an RSS feedwhich lists known web application vulnerabilities and the specific technologieswhich they target. Hackers today have an ever increasing list of weaknesses in theweb application structure at their disposal, which they can exploit to accomplish awide variety of malicious tasks. In order to educate the public, Acunetix felt theneed to document all vulnerabilities discovered by Acunetix WVS since its inception,and will continue to update this list with every new vulnerability found.
Hackers are constantly searching for new flaws to exploit in web applications. Mostof the vulnerabilities affect all dynamic web applications whilst others are knownto be dependent on specific application technologies. Whatever the case may be, ithas become apparent that as web technologies progress, so do the exploits that comewith them which hackers are using in order to compromise sensitive databases, thusposing a threat to the daily operation of online businesses.
Since its introduction to the market, developers at Acunetix have been gatheringinformation on all the known web application vulnerabilities detected by thescanner. These vulnerability "signatures" also reinforce the need for the heuristicscanning capabilities of Acunetix WVS, for the detection of those exploits whichhave not yet been identified and tagged.
The Web Application Vulnerability RSS feed, including over 400 entries is availableto subscribe to from: http://www.acunetix.com/vulner abilities/index.htm
About Acunetix Web Vulnerability ScannerAcunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner ensures website security by automaticallychecking for SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other vulnerabilities. Itchecks password strength on authentication pages and automatically audits shoppingcarts, forms, dynamic content and other web applications. Acunetix also crawls andanalyzes websites including flash content, SOAP and AJAX. As the scan is beingcompleted, the software produces detailed reports that pinpoint wherevulnerabilities exist.
About Acunetix Acunetix was founded to combat the alarming rise in web attacks. Its flagshipproduct, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, is the result of several years ofdevelopment by a team of highly experienced security developers. Acunetix is aprivately held company with headquarters based in Europe (Malta) and an office inLondon, UK. For more information about Acunetix, visit: http://www.acunetix.com;http: //www.acunetix.de.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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