O:8:"stdClass":2:{s:7:"expires";i:1405519437;s:4:"data";s:9617:"<li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/need-know-performing-authenticated-network-security-scans/" target="_blank" title="Posted on July 14, 2014 | 8:30 am">What You Need to Know About Performing Authenticated Network Security Scans</a></h4><div><p>Are you scanning your network hosts for security vulnerabilities while logged in as a user? If not, you should be. Authenticated testing can add a lot of value to your overall security assessment results. You’ll find a lot more missing ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/need-know-performing-authenticated-network-security-scans/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/need-know-performing-authenticated-network-security-scans/">What You Need to Know About Performing Authenticated Network Security Scans</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/block-automated-scanners/" target="_blank" title="Posted on July 9, 2014 | 8:30 am">How to Block Automated Scanners from Scanning your Site</a></h4><div><p>This blog post describes how to block automated scanners from scanning your website. This should work with any modern web scanner parsing robots.txt (all popular web scanners do this). Website owners use the robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots, such ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/block-automated-scanners/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/block-automated-scanners/">How to Block Automated Scanners from Scanning your Site</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/acumonitor-detected-paypals-blind-xss-vulnerability/" target="_blank" title="Posted on July 8, 2014 | 11:08 am">AcuMonitor could have Detected PayPal’s Blind XSS Vulnerability</a></h4><div><p>Vulnerability-Lab, a Germany-based security research company, recently identified an application-side validation web vulnerability, which allows an attacker to inject code in his user profile. The injected code gets executed when a PayPal employee loads the user’s details on PayPal’s backend ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/acumonitor-detected-paypals-blind-xss-vulnerability/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/acumonitor-detected-paypals-blind-xss-vulnerability/">AcuMonitor could have Detected PayPal&#8217;s Blind XSS Vulnerability</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-username-enumeration-using-http-fuzzer/" target="_blank" title="Posted on July 7, 2014 | 8:30 am">WordPress Username Enumeration using HTTP Fuzzer</a></h4><div><p>In many WordPress blogs, it's possible to enumerate WordPress users using a well-known feature/bug related to author archives. This works if the following conditions are met: WordPress permalinks are enabled. By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-username-enumeration-using-http-fuzzer/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/wordpress-username-enumeration-using-http-fuzzer/">WordPress Username Enumeration using HTTP Fuzzer</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/common-platform-enumeration-cpe-explained/" target="_blank" title="Posted on July 2, 2014 | 9:30 am">Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Explained</a></h4><div><p>When running a Network Scan on your perimeter server using Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner (OVS), one of the Informational alerts shown in the scan results is the CPE Inventory. The data that is collected during the scan is aggregated using ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/common-platform-enumeration-cpe-explained/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/common-platform-enumeration-cpe-explained/">Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Explained</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/events/acunetix-sponsors-rsa-conference-2014-asia-pacific-japan/" target="_blank" title="Posted on July 1, 2014 | 10:30 am">Acunetix Sponsors RSA Conference Asia Pacific &amp; Japan 2014</a></h4><div><p>Acunetix will be exhibiting as a Silver Sponsor at the RSA Conference in Singapore this year. The event will be held from 22nd till 23rd July at Marina Bay Sands. The conference will host a series of IT security-related workshops ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/events/acunetix-sponsors-rsa-conference-2014-asia-pacific-japan/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/events/acunetix-sponsors-rsa-conference-2014-asia-pacific-japan/">Acunetix Sponsors RSA Conference Asia Pacific &#038; Japan 2014</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/cookie-overdose/" target="_blank" title="Posted on June 30, 2014 | 8:30 am">Cookie Overdose</a></h4><div><p>One of our customers recently reported that some parts of his site were not properly crawled by our scanner (Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner). Upon investigation, I found the cause of the problem. When a specific page was visited, a cookie with a random ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/cookie-overdose/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/cookie-overdose/">Cookie Overdose</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/network-vulnerability-assessment-gotchas-avoid/" target="_blank" title="Posted on June 25, 2014 | 1:34 pm">Network Vulnerability Assessment Gotchas to Avoid</a></h4><div><p>There’s a saying that experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. It’s so true, especially in the context of information security and, specifically, network security testing. If you have any experience running vulnerability scans, you’ve ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/network-vulnerability-assessment-gotchas-avoid/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/network-vulnerability-assessment-gotchas-avoid/">Network Vulnerability Assessment Gotchas to Avoid</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/configure-web-server-disclose-identity/" target="_blank" title="Posted on June 23, 2014 | 8:30 am">How to Configure your Web Server to Not Disclose its Identity</a></h4><div><p>If you are running a web server, that web server is probably showing the world what type of server it is, and possibly its version number. This information is ignored by most people, with the exception of hackers, who use this ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/configure-web-server-disclose-identity/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/configure-web-server-disclose-identity/">How to Configure your Web Server to Not Disclose its Identity</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><li><h4><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/close-unused-open-ports/" target="_blank" title="Posted on June 19, 2014 | 8:30 am">How to Close Unused Open Ports</a></h4><div><p>One of the checks done in a network scan by Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner (OVS) is a TCP and UDP port scan. Any open ports detected during the scan will be reported as shown in the screenshot. In this particular ... <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/close-unused-open-ports/"><span class="meta-nav">[+]</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com/blog/web-security-zone/close-unused-open-ports/">How to Close Unused Open Ports</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.acunetix.com">Acunetix</a>.</p></div></li><div style="border-top: solid 1px #ccc; margin-top: 4px; padding: 2px 0;"><p style="margin: 5px 0 0 0; padding: 0 0; line-height: normal; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://feeds.acunetix.com/acunetixwebapplicationsecurityblog"
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