Arachni is an Open Source, feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications. It is smart, it trains itself by monitoring and learning from the web application’s behaviour during the scan process and is able to perform meta-analysis using a number of factors in order […]
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Garmr – Automate Web Application Security Tests
Garmr is a tool to inspect the responses from websites for basic security requirements. It includes a set of core test cases implemented in corechecks that are derived from the Mozilla Secure Coding Guidelines which can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_Guidelines The purpose of this page is to establish a concise and consistent approach to secure […]
Arachni v0.4 Released – High-Performance (Open Source) Web Application Security Scanner Framework
Arachni is a high-performance (Open Source) Web Application Security Scanner Framework written in Ruby. This version includes lots of goodies, including: A new light-weight RPC implementation (No more XMLRPC) High Performance Grid (HPG) — Combines the resources of multiple nodes for lightning-fast scans Updated WebUI to provide access to HPG features and context-sensitive help Accuracy […]
Arachni v0.3 Released – Web Application Security Scanner Framework
It’s been a while since we last mentioned Arachni, it was back in February – Arachni v0.2.2.1 – Web Application Security Scanner Framework. For those who are not aware, Arachni is a fully automated system which tries to enforce the fire and forget principle. As soon as a scan is started it will not bother […]
Skipfish 1.94b Released – Active Web Application Security Reconnaissance Tool
It’s been a while since we last mentioned Skipfish, it was back in March 2010 when they first came out. Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the […]