Author Archives: Robert Abela

Many assume that a web application firewall is enough to protect web applications from malicious attacks. Therefore fixing security vulnerabilities is not necessary thanks to the WAF’s blacklist of functions, keywords or characters. However, expe… Continue reading Live Demo of How to Bypass Web Application Firewalls & Filters→

“We were impressed by the amount of positive feedback from your existing customers and also the calibre of the companies who were already using Netsparker.”
Who can tell it better than the customer himself? This is not the ordinary case stu… Continue reading ProfitKeeper Automates Web Application Security with Netsparker→

There are mainly two different ways how to password protect a section on a web application, or all of the web application. You can use form based authentication, which is done at web application level, or you can configure the authentication at web ser… Continue reading Configuring Basic, NTLM & Digest Authentication in Netsparker→

We are now less than one month away from Autumn, so today we are announcing the end of summer update of Netsparker Desktop. Here is an overview of what is new and improved in this update of our dead accurate web application security scanner.
Support fo… Continue reading August 2017 Update of Netsparker Desktop→

Every year we publish a number of statistics about the vulnerabilities which the Netsparker web application security scanner automatically identified in open source web applications. Netsparker is a heuristic web application security scanner, so all th… Continue reading Infographic: Statistics About the Security State of 104 Open Source Web Applications→

Julio Potier is the developer behind SecuPress, the WordPress plugin that makes it possible to easily secure your WordPress websites and blogs. Julio is based in France and is very active in the WordPress security scene. He is also a security consultant and teaches developers to write more secure code through his lecture and audits… Read More

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The earlier in the development process a vulnerability is found, the easier and cheaper it is to fix. For example, imagine a vulnerability is found during a penetration test in four or five month old code. It is very difficult for your developers, if t… Continue reading Discussing Web Vulnerability Scanning in Continuous Integration on Enterprise Security Weekly→

A few weeks ago we released update 4.9.0.15101 of Netsparker Desktop web application security scanner. This update is a major one, we have included a good number of new web security checks, new features and also a good number of improvements and bug fi… Continue reading June 2017 Update of Netsparker Desktop→