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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.'"
Mu Security would not say whether the product will be hardware- or software-based, but more details will be revealed in March, Furgerson said.
That's not very helpful. If we're talking a tool to check for security flaws already patched against, what good is that? Just keep your systems up to date. On the other hand, if we're talking about things like buffer-overflow checkers, then why not use an existing product?
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.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
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.
... and several other ones already axist.
I'd say that the only interesting thing about this announcement is an opportunity for geeks to analyse this new product and see if it contains any ripped off GPL'ed code.
FP.
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
cracker sues Startup over piracy of cracker's trade secrets via emulation.
"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.