[ad] To follow on from Whitetrash which I posted about previously, here is another tool to secure your web site or web application. Essentially it’s a very comprehensive set of rules for mod_security. ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall). Operating as an Apache […]
Countermeasures
Whitetrash – Dynamic Web White-listing for Squid
[ad] This is a pretty neat tool for those using Squid Cache and looking for a pro-active tool for securing web acccess in their company (or house if you have a devious sibling). The goal of Whitetrash is to provide a user-friendly and sysadmin-friendly proxy that makes it significantly harder for malware to use HTTP […]
GFI End of Year Offer – Up to 50% Off
Just a quick note as I know many of you guys are in corporate security positions and might be looking for some of the solutions GFI offers. They are having a Q4 promotion with up to 50% off on some of their products/services. GFI MailEssentials โ 25% GFI MailEssentials & GFI MailSecurity Suite โ 25% […]
CORE GRASP – PHP Web Application Protection Software
[ad] CORE GRASP for PHP is a web-application protection software aimed at detecting and blocking injection vulnerabilities and privacy violations. As mentioned during its presentation at Black Hat USA 2007, GRASP is being released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The present implementation protects PHP 5.2.3 against SQL-injection attacks for the MySQL engine, […]
Common Criteria Web Application Security Scoring (CCWAPSS) Released
[ad] The purpose of the scoring scale CCWAPSS is to share a common evaluation method for web application security assessments/pentests between security auditors and final customers. This scale does not aim at replacing other evaluation standards but suggests a simple way of evaluating the security level of a web application. CCWAPSS is focused on rating […]