Google Gives Away Web App Security Tool 30
CWmike writes "Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications. Ratproxy, released under an Apache 2.0 software license, looks for a variety of coding problems in Web applications. A 2006 survey by the Web Application Security Consortium found that 85.57 percent of 31,373 sites were vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, 26.38 percent were vulnerable to SQL injection and 15.70 percent had other faults that could lead to data loss."
Re:Works great (Score:5, Funny)
If you run it with -xXx, it'll find any pornographic images on your site.
Re:Works great (Score:3, Funny)
and 4x's gives you free beer
Oooh, goody goody... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Viacom has petitioned the court for Google's logs of users who downloaded their ratproxy tool after it was used to reveal vulnerabilities on certain Viacom owned web sites.