Ever find yourself looking for that show-stopper exploit in a Web-app, and forgetting to check out all the low-hanging fruit? That’s initially why the authors created Watcher – a passive web application vulnerability scanner. For one thing, you don’t want to manually inspect a Web-app for many of these issues (cookie settings, SSL configuration, information […]
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x5s – Automated XSS Security Testing Assistant
[ad] x5s is a Fiddler add-on which aims to assist penetration testers in finding cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. It’s main goal is to help you identify the hotspots where XSS might occur by: Detecting where safe encodings were not applied to emitted user-inputs Detecting where Unicode character transformations might bypass security filters Detecting where non-shortest UTF-8 […]
Fiddler – Web Debugging Proxy For HTTP(S)
[ad] Recently I posted about Charles Web Debugging Proxy and quite a few people mentioned they had been using Fiddler. Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler […]