Acunetix -- a name on the forefront of the web application security industry -- today announced the 8th version of its popular Web Vulnerability Scanner product. Through this new iteration of WVS, ...

Today’s Open Source Friday Focus is on Google’s Skipfish web application vulnerability scanner. Google recently released Skipfish to combat one of the biggest problems in information security today, ...

Web application vulnerability scanners may miss as many as half the vulnerabilities, according to a researcher who found mounds of missed vulnerabilities and false positives, as well as laggardly ...

Startups such as SPI Dynamics offer Web application scanners that allow security integrators and software developers to unearth holes in Web applications that attackers could exploit to obtain ...

A new automated web application scanner autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications. The ...

Conventional wisdom says that looking for trouble isnt a good idea. When it comes to IT security, however, finding system troubles before anyone else does is the name of the game. In this special ...

What are the common indications that an organization's vulnerability management program is not functioning properly? Gary McCully of SecureState presents methods and suggestions for rooting them out ...

Chances are your security team has devoted a lot of thought, effort and money to security issues in the past year or two. You’ve plugged holes in the operating systems. You’ve done virus and spyware ...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) was, is and probably will be the most popular web application vulnerability to exploit—so it’s good news that Google has developed an internal web application security ...