Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is web scanner working in windows operating system.. Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner first identifies web servers from a particular IP or IP range. After that, it crawls the whole site, gathering information about every file it finds, and displaying the entire website structure.
After this discovery stage, it performs an automatic audit for common security issues. Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is a software that automatically detects file inclusion.
The Port Scanner and network alerts allow you to perform a port scan against the web server where the scanned website is running. When open ports are found, Acunetix WVS will perform complex network level security checks against the network service running on that port, such as DNS Open recursion tests, badly configured proxy server tests, weak SNMP community strings and many other network level security checks
SQL Injection is one of the many web attack mechanisms used by hackers to steal data from organizations. It is perhaps one of the most common application layer attack techniques used today. It is the type of attack that takes advantage of improper coding of your web applications that allows hacker to inject SQL commands into say a login form to allow them to gain access to the data held within your database.
In essence, SQL Injection arises because the fields available for user input allow SQL statements to pass through and query the database directly.
Web applications allow legitimate website visitors to submit and retrieve data to/from a database over the Internet using their preferred web browser. Databases are central to modern websites – they store data needed for websites to deliver specific content to visitors and render information to customers, suppliers, employees and a host of stakeholders.
User credentials, financial and payment information, company statistics may all be resident within a database and accessed by legitimate users through off-the-shelf and custom web applications. Web applications and databases allow you to regularly run your business.
SQL Injection is the hacking technique which attempts to pass SQL commands (statements) through a web application for execution by the backend database. If not sanitized properly, web applications may result in SQL Injection attacks that allow hackers to view information from the database and/or even wipe it out.
