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Startup Prepares Cracker Attack Emulator

Posted by Zonk on from the cracker-in-a-box dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:So what? by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

    We people in the industry even have a name for this technology. It is called a user.

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  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    cracker sues Startup over piracy of cracker's trade secrets via emulation.

  3. MuSecurity.. by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Funny


        "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.

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    1. Re:MuSecurity.. by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny

      "MuSecurity. We hack you first, so the hackers don't have to."

      So they're a division of Sony, are they?

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