Most websites have security vulnerabilities

Dangerous vulnerabilities are present in a large number of today's websites, and the percentage is only going to keep on growing, according to a new report by Acunetix. The automated web application security software company released its annual Web Application Vulnerability Report 2016, based on 45,000 website and network scans, done on 5,700 websites over the past year. The results are worrying. More than half (55 percent) of websites have at least one high-severity vulnerability, representing a nine percent growth compared to last year's report.  More than four fifths (84 percent) have medium-severity vulnerabilities. There has been a small, "encouraging"… [Continue Reading]