Acunetix web vulnerability scanner version 5 get released
Thursday 21 June 2007
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.New major changes for this new 5.x branch.
New Tools / Applications:
Subdomain Scanner
Web Services Scanner
Web Services Editor
Reporter Application
General Improvements:
Ms Windows Vista Support
Visual Interface Improvements with new graphics and buttons
Source View in various parts of the product
Password protection for all Acunetix Tools and applications
Upgrading from Previous Versions/Builds keeps all Settings and Configurations
Reporting Improvements:
New Reporter Application
Detailed Scans View from the Database
Standard Report Templates: Developer, Executive, Vulnerability
Scan Comparison Templates
Statistical Templates: Yearly, Monthly, etc..
Compliance Reports Templates: OWASP, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, etc..
Crawler Improvements:
Manual Choice of Files from the Site Structure
Directory Recursion (loop) Detection
URL Rewrite Detection and Warning to User
Improved Filtering (replacing the old search functionality)
Scanner Improvements:
New Scanning Mode Option: Quick, Heuristic and Full
Multi-Step Scanning
Stored XSS Tests
Header Manipulation
Improved Blind SQL Injection Tests
Improved Mod_Rewrite Support
Improved Filtering (replacing the old search functionality)
Grouping of Test Variants
Sitemaps Support
Added New Vulnerability Tests
Scheduler Improvements:
Support for Web Services Scheduled Scans
New options for Source and Output of Scans
Mail Notifications
Command Line Improvements:
New options added to support more functions like the full application
Web Services Scans
Mail Notifications
Database Improvements:
Significantly Reduced DB Size by 90% while keeping the same details and more!
New Database Structure (conversion tool available to upgrade from v4 structure)
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