Top 10 benefits of using an ASPM to improve application security

Tue, 09 Sep 2025

ASPM platforms unify results across tools, automate workflows, and enable risk-based prioritization so security teams can manage vulnerabilities at scale. Invicti ASPM turns these benefits into measurable outcomes with proof-based validation, compliance-ready reporting, and developer-friendly integrations.

Are Hackers a Step Ahead? An Analysis using Web Application Vulnerabilities

Wed, 13 Sep 2017

In this analysis the Netsparker team used Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner to scan a number of popular open source web applications and identify vulnerabilities in them. The results are very shocking and explain why malicious hackers are always a step ahead of website owners. A vulnerability statistics infographic was also generated from the results.

How Netsparker solves the challenge of false positives in web vulnerability scans

Mon, 22 May 2017

This web application security blog post explains why false positives are still among the biggest problems of today’s web application vulnerability scanners. You will also learn what the Netsparker team has done to ensure that Netsparker’s web application security solution does not burden users with false positives in web application security scan results.

JavaScript Scope and IntenseDebate’s Privacy Problems

Tue, 26 Apr 2011

In this web application security article, Ferruh Mavituna, explains a security issue he identified in IntenseDebate online service that could allow attackers to access information about the logged-in session of the victim. Ferruh also suggests a number of remedies for this problem which every web application developer should know of.

SVN Digger – Better Wordlists for Forced Browsing with Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner

Mon, 11 Apr 2011

In this blog post we explain how we built a database of keywords which will be used in Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner when doing forced browsing security checks to try and identify hidden resources in web applications during a security scan.

XSS to Root in Apache Jira Incident

Mon, 22 May 2017

In this blog post we explain how malicious hackers hacked into the Apache Foundation web servers and gained root access. They started by exploiting a cross-site scripting vulnerability in a web application called Jira. We scanned Jira with Netsparker and detected all of the vulnerabilities the malicious hackers exploited and more. This incident should serve as an example to all corporations to use Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner to identify and close down web application vulnerabilities.

WebRaider

Sat, 27 Feb 2010

WebRaider is a proof of concept tool to get reverse shell from an SQL Injection with one request, without using any extra channels such as TFTP or FTP to upload the initial payload.