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  • Article: Analyzing the Effectiveness and Coverage of Web Application Security Scanners

    Larry Suto has written a paper reviewing Webinspect, Appscan, and NTO Spider. From the article "The study centered around testing the effectiveness of the top three web application scanners in the following 4 areas. 1. Links crawled 2. Coverage of the applications tested using Fortify Tracer 3. Number of verified vulnerability findings 4. Number of…

  • Russian Business Network Is Haven For Online Crime

    The Russian Business Network is an ISP in St. Petersburg allowing for hosting of 'anything'. "The Russian Business Network sells Web site hosting to people engaged in criminal activity, the security experts say. Groups operating through the company's computers are thought to be responsible for about half of last year's incidents of "phishing" — ID-theft…