Archives for December 20th, 2010

20 Dec

Common Weakness Scoring System (CWSS) v0.1 released

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So for each weakness in the architecture, design, code or implementation that might be introduced into an application, which in some cases can contribute to a vulnerability within that software, we need to be able toreason and communicate about the relative importance of different weaknesses. For example, a buffer overflow vulnerability might arise from aweakness in which the programmer doesnot properly validate the length of an input buffer. This weakness only contributes to a vulnerability if the input buffer can be influenced by amalicious party, and the malicious buffer is copied toa smaller buffer.
20 Dec

Acunetix WVS Version 7 build 20101216 released

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Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web site and web application penetration testing.