{"id":2054,"date":"2009-09-08T05:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T05:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:37:55","slug":"swfscan-free-flash-application-security-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2009\/09\/swfscan-free-flash-application-security-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"SWFScan &#8211; Free Flash Application Security Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>HP SWFScan is a free tool developed by HP Web Security Research Group, which will automatically find security vulnerabilities in applications built on the Flash platform.<\/p>\n<p>HP is offering SWFScan because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Their research shows that developers and increasingly implementing applications built on the Adobe Flash platform without the required security expertise.<\/li>\n<li>As a result, they are seeing a proliferation of insecure applications being deployed on the web.<\/li>\n<li>A vulnerable application built on the Flash platform widens your website\u2019s attack surface creating more opportunity for malicious hackers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How SWFScan works and what vulnerabilities it finds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decompiles applications built on the Adobe Flash platform to extract the ActionScript code and statically analyzes it to identify security issues such as information disclosure.<\/li>\n<li>Identifies and reports insecure programming and deployment practices and suggests solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Enables you to audit third party applications without requiring access to the source code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can download SWFScan here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/h30406.www3.hp.com\/campaigns\/2009\/wwcampaign\/1-5TUVE\/images\/SwfScan.msi\">SwfScan.msi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>Or read more <a href=\"https:\/\/h30406.www3.hp.com\/campaigns\/2009\/wwcampaign\/1-5TUVE\/index.php?key=swf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] HP SWFScan is a free tool developed by HP Web Security Research Group, which will automatically find security vulnerabilities in applications built on the Flash platform. HP is offering SWFScan because: Their research shows that developers and increasingly implementing applications built on the Adobe Flash platform without the required security expertise. As a result, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[2721,2041,1602,396],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}