Checks if your web site is hackable

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is a useful, trial version Windows program, that belongs to the category Security software with subcategory Prevention and has been created by Acunetix.

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Since the program joined our selection of software and apps in 2005, it has already achieved 26,813 installations, and last week it had 50 installations.

It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and previous versions, and it is available in English. The current version of the program is 3.0 and its last update happened on 8/12/2008.

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is a program that requires less storage than many software in the category Security software. It’s a software very heavily used in some countries such as Indonesia, India, and United States.

Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications in your website: 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Web applications are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and control sensitive data such as customer details, credit card numbers and proprietary corporate data.

Any defense at network security level will provide no protection against web application attacks since they are launched on port 80 – which has to remain open. In addition, web applications are often tailor-made, therefore tested less than off-the-shelf software, and are more likely to have undiscovered vulnerabilities. Manually auditing a website for vulnerabilities is virtually impossible – it needs to be done automatically and regularly.