Security Assessment Inc., a leading Canadian information security firm providing high-level expertise in securing corporate IT Network Infrastructures has today announced a channel partner agreement with Acunetix, a leading website security software company. The agreement serves as a significant step as Acunetix continues to expand their Canadian presence with its popular web application security tool, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.

Caching servers used by leading search engines have become malicious code repositories, according to a report published yesterday.

The study found when the website containing the code is removed, the malicious content it holds remains stored on the caching servers - used by ISPs and leading search engines - leaving businesses vulnerable to spyware, trojans and other security threats.

WALTHAM, Mass. & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at Mercury World 2006, Watchfire, the worldwide market-leading provider of web application vulnerability assessment software and services announced integration and support for Mercury Quality Center? 9.0. AppScan? offers solutions for all types of security testing ?outsourced, desktop-user and enterprise-wide analysis. Now, Watchfire?s web application security testing solutions, AppScan, and AppScan? Enterprise both integrate with the most recent version of Mercury TestDirector?, part of Mercury Quality Center?. Watchfire will also exhibit and demonstrate the integrations within the Mercury World 2006 Partner Showcase.

Symantec is expanding its focus from securing devices to protecting information, the company said at an event in New York.

Dubbed 'Security 2.0', the new initiative will seek to restore consumer confidence in online transactions while allowing enterprises to further expand their online commerce initiatives without compromising their security.

Ounce Labs, the leader in software security assurance, today announced product integration that combines its product's source code security assessment results with findings from Cenzic? Hailstorm?, SPI Dynamics? WebInspect?, and Watchfire? AppScan?. Advancements in Ounce's open architecture enable customers now to import results directly from their existing penetration testing tools to achieve a higher level of insight into the security of their software.

Radware and Forum Systems today announced that the companies are engaged in joint development of an integrated application-smart networking solution aimed at ensuring the fast and secure delivery of XML-based Web services running on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The joint solution integrates XML acceleration and security features from Forum Systems with Radware's AppXcel application accelerator appliance.

SPI Labs has discovered a practical method of using JavaScript to detect the search queries a user has entered into arbitrary search engines. All the code needed to steal a user's search queries is written in JavaScript and uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This code could be embedded into any website either by the website owner or by a malicious third party through a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attack. There it would harvest information about every visitor to that site