Google Hands Out Web Security Scanner

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Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 21, 2010 @10:36AM from the like-giving-deodorant-to-your-special-friend dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently feeling generous this week, Google has released for free another of their internally developed tools: this time, a nifty web security scanner dubbed skipfish. A vendor-sponsored study cited by InformationWeek discovered that 90% of all web applications are vulnerable to security attacks. Are Google's security people trying to change this?"

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Re:I don't trust it (Score:3, Funny)

by Foofoobar ( 318279 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @11:01AM (#31557628)

How's the weather under that tinfoil hat?

Re:I don't trust it (Score:2, Funny)

by maxwell demon ( 590494 ) writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @12:14PM (#31558040) Journal

What article?
"The" - is there another?

Re:2 side sword (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:15PM (#31558806)

Is VERY fast, been observed 500 request/seconds against responsive internet servers, 2000/sec when in the same lan...
Wow, it's almost like you read the FAQ [google.com] or something:
500+ requests per second against responsive Internet targets, 2000+ requests per second on LAN / MAN networks...

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