[ad] It seems after a brief scan that about 80% of sites contain common flaws that allows them to be compromised in some way, most often to create phishing sites, steal data and hijack info about clients. An amazing 30% contain a serious vulnerability. Eight out of ten Web sites contain common flaws that can […]
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Selenium – JavaScript Web Application Security Testing Tool
[ad] Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platforms. Browser compatibility testing. Test your application to see if […]
AOL Has An Odd Password System
[ad] An interesting snippet from last month, AOL seems to have a strangely configued password system. Users can enter up to 16 characters as a password, but the system only reads the first 8 and discards the rest. They are basically truncating the password at 8 characters. A reader wrote in Friday with an interesting […]
Priamos Project – SQL Injector and Scanner
[ad] PRIAMOS is a powerful SQL Injector & Scanner You can search for SQL Injection vulnerabilities and inject vulnerable string to get all Database names, Tables and Column data with the injector module. You should only use PRIAMOS to test the security vulnerabilities of your own web applications (obviously). The first release of PRIAMOS contain […]
Google Acquires Web Security Startup GreenBorder
[ad] More Google News this week after Google Launches Online Security & Malware Blog, now they have acquired a web security startup called GreenBorder. Google Inc. said on Tuesday it has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies Inc., which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or unwanted computer code. Terms […]