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Which passwords to avoid for Internet-facing systems?
For the last year or so, Rapid7 has been collecting login credentials via “Heisenberg,” a network of low-interaction honeypots that the company has set up to analyze login …
The top 7 improvements in Nmap 7
Nmap 7 is the product of three and a half years of work, nearly 3200 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 6 release in May 2012.The top 7 …
Yahoo open-sources Gryffin, a large scale web security scanning platform
Yahoo has open-sourced Gryffin, a scanning platform for web applications.The developers’ goal was to create a security scanner that will be able to both discover as much …
Qualys announces free global asset inventory service
At Black Hat USA 2015, Qualys announced the availability of Qualys AssetView, a free cloud-based asset inventory service that enables companies to search for information on …
Akamai and Trustwave unite to protect businesses from online threats
Akamai Technologies, provider of content delivery network services, and managed security services firm Trustwave announced at Infosecurity Europe 2015 a new strategic alliance …
Scany: Network scanner for iOS
Over the past five years I tested quite a few iOS applications that could be used for providing quick snaps of the local network. Most of them were free applications and very …
Cloud agent platform for continuous IT asset inventory, security and compliance
At RSA Conference 2015, Qualys announced the launch of Qualys Cloud Agent Platform (CAP), which extends Qualys’ Cloud Security and Compliance Platform with lightweight agents …
Students create open source, cross-platform memory scanning tool
Mozilla has unveiled the result of a successful project executed by a group of Computer Science students from Argentina: it’s called Masche, and it’s an open …
Google’s new Cloud Security Scanner detects common security bugs
Here’s some good news for Google App Engine developers: Google has released a new application security scanner that’s especially fitting to test new app builds for …
Rails security scanner Brakeman 3.0.0 released
Brakeman is an open source vulnerability scanner specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It statically analyzes Rails application code to find security issues at …
A closer look at Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner automatically checks your web applications for SQL Injection, XSS and other web vulnerabilities. Features: AcuSensor Technology SQL …
How important is website security?
In this interview, Nicholas Sciberras, Product Manager at Acunetix, illustrates why website security should be a priority in any organization. He talks about the challenges …