Sunday, January 29, 2012

Acunetix - Best Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix is a tool that scans websites for known vulnerabilities. It will list all possible sql, xss, html injections, all java injections, all passwords and database weaknesses, all ftp weaknesses, etc. All form submissions exploits that the website can be targeted with. Remote upload and download vulnerabilities.

It will work in 80% of the cases, its database is updated regularly, but websites with latest updates and a good admin might not be targetable.



Blackhat Pros

An automatic client script analyzer allowing for security testing of Ajax and Web 2.0 applications
Industries' most advanced and in-depth SQL injection and Cross site scripting testing
Advanced penetration testing tools, such as the HTTP Editor and the HTTP Fuzzer
Visual macro recorder makes testing web forms and password protected areas easy
Support for pages with CAPTHCA, single sign-on and Two Factor authentication mechanisms
Extensive reporting facilities including VISA PCI compliance reports
Multi-threaded and lightning fast scanner crawls hundreds of thousands of pages with ease
Intelligent crawler detects web server type and application language
Acunetix crawls and analyzes websites including flash content, SOAP and AJAX
Port scans a web server and runs security checks against network services running on the serve
Whitehat and Web Host Pros
Acunetix WVS automatically checks your web applications for XSS, SQL Injection & other vulnerabilities.
Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are futile against web application hacking.
Acunetix checks your web applications for coding errors that result in Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
Acunetix also checks for other vulnerabilities in popular web applications such as Joomla, PHPbb.
Acunetix identifies files with XSS vulnerabilities allowing you to fix them BEFORE the hacker finds them!

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