Today, EdgeSecurity released a new tool: ProxyStrike. Like the WebScarab project supported by OWASP, its a web application proxy which will help you to find potential vulnerabilities in your web applications (don’t use it on third parties sites without the owner acknowledgement). Once started, it acts as a normal proxy:
Month: April 2008
Cisco Acquired Sguil
Announced on TaoSecurity, Cisco acquired Sguil. Sguil is a monitoring tool for network security anaylists. It provides realtime traffic analysis and goes deeper up to the raw packet level. Why is Sguild a nice opportinity for Cisco? It’s developed in TCL and high-end Cisco routers and switches have TCL builtin!
Crontab Security
All UNIX flavors have a command scheduler called cron. Each user can schedule repetitive tasks at regular interval. Example: files cleanup, backups, data synchronization or web sites checks. User space commands are provided for this purpose: crontab to easily schedule your tasks and at to schedule a one-shot command. A