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Startup Prepares Cracker Attack Emulator
Startup.Blog writes "A startup company MuSecurity is shipping a product that emulates multitude of known attacks and integrates the security checks into quality assurance processes. The company 'will soon begin selling a new vulnerability assessment product that lets technology vendors and enterprise developers test their products with known hacker techniques, allowing them to fix bugs before products are put into use.'"
So if you hook this up to a Windows box, does it blow up like the androids on the old Star Trek?
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We people in the industry even have a name for this technology. It is called a user.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
cracker sues Startup over piracy of cracker's trade secrets via emulation.
While most crackers are pretty harmless, saltines are going to give you the most problem. Keep an eye out for Ritz as well, as I've personally had issues with keeping those out of my system.
For a Windoze box, it is called 'Plug Into Teh Interweb'. This test runs for about 20 minutes.
Oh well, what the hell...
Your testing tool must be outdated. With a new Windows XP box the test now takes 10 minutes or less.
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"MuSecurity. We hack you first, so the hackers don't have to."
"Pre-root your box for only $19.95"
"Want a bot net? Have you own today!"
Oh, testing for exploits, not actually exploiting the box.. hehe.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
For those of you that want to emulate a cracker attack, I cannot recommended highly enough any of the ABBA albums out there. Turn that on amongst any non-crackers, and you will know rapidly how well things will hold up.
There are limits to this type of stress-testing, though - playing any "Rocky" movie will likely cause excessive bleeding from your ears. There's no reason to go overboard when cracker-testing.
In other news, the shares of the security company raised after it was leaked that Microsoft ordered dozens of vulnerability checkers.
This thing is going to have to be pretty darn impressive to actually find a niche other than people who don't know any better.
In my experience, that's still a pretty big niche.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Slashdot Editor Duped by Guerilla Marketer
Could you be thinking of ... hmm ... I don't know, maybe ... SATAN??!!?!
John