Security

Imagine my chagrin when at around New Year’s I began receiving notifications from my then-free anti-virus program, AVG, that the anti-virus protection I had come to know, trust, and even take for granted, would soon be replaced by a fee-based version of the program.
Well, like the classic alarmist that I am, I waited until the […]

Businesses and non-commercial entities have much to consider when it comes to securing their Web applications and the data they keep on customers and patrons. Acunetix, a leading vendor of Web application security solutions, today revealed that on average 70% of Web sites are at serious and immediate risk of being hacked.
Since January 2006, Acunetix […]

Over the past several years I have heard people asking the question “should I use vulnerability analysis tools to assess my Web based applications or should I look to penetration testing?” I think we, as an industry, may be asking the wrong question. First, let’s look at how the Web application industry has grown […]

To understand and then combat a brute force attack, also known as a dictionary attack, we must start by understanding why it might be an appealing tool for a hacker. To a hacker, anything that must be kept under lock and key is probably worth stealing. If your Web site (or a portion of it) […]