These leading website scanners are essential tools in your efforts to thwart attacks against web applications. Written by eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We ...

A new web application security scanner, developed by a former MIT student now Berkeley postdoctoral researcher, could be a real find for developers wishing to lock down bugs that live outside the ...

QualysGuard PCI 3.0 now includes a Web Application Scanning (WAS) module that combines the application ’ s traditional compliance scanning, remediation and e-filing capabilities with automated ...

Google has released its own Web application security scanner, called Skipfish. The free scanner is designed to work within a variety of existing Web application frameworks and is built with an ...

A 2006 survey by the Web Application Security Consortium found that 85.57 percent of 31,373 sites were vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, 26.38 percent were vulnerable to SQL injection ...

Web application scanners are used together with static application security testing (SAST) tools, which analyze the actual source code of web applications during the development stage, ...

According to search engine giant Google, Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool that prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl ...

Netsparker Ltd today announced the launch of their new enterprise online service offering Netsparker Cloud. The new online web application security scanner is built on the already proven false ...

Dick Mackey, principal at SystemExperts, Sudbury, Mass., said Web applications vulnerability scanner tools are useful but typically point out the more obvious and "mechanical" vulnerabilities.

Web apps have become the security industry’s Achilles heel. In fact, vulnerabilities in web apps are now one of the most common network threats, accounting for 55 percent of all server ...