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Google Hands Out Web Security Scanner

Posted by Soulskill on from the like-giving-deodorant-to-your-special-friend dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently feeling generous this week, Google has released for free another of their internally developed tools: this time, a nifty web security scanner dubbed skipfish. A vendor-sponsored study cited by InformationWeek discovered that 90% of all web applications are vulnerable to security attacks. Are Google's security people trying to change this?"

3 of 65 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Oh Please, GIVE IT A REST. by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is like saying that you should’t badmouth Hitler, but just not to to Germany in 1942. ;)

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  2. Re:Oh Please, GIVE IT A REST. by aflag · · Score: 0, Troll

    They didn't lie to me, but they tricked me into making my email part of a social network.

  3. Nothing Is Free by re_organeyes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Including skipfish. While I haven't downloaded it, I have no doubt that something is being reported back to Google. Just as with any business practice, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. Google advertising maybe? Possibly, whatever the reason, I doubt "Free" in this case really isn't "Free".