Ask Slashdot: Do-It-Yourself Security Auditing Tools?

An anonymous reader writes "I'm a 'prosumer' website builder, have a few sites that are mainly hobbies, but I would like to know that they're at least fairly robust. I'm thinking of the equivalent of a 'dental clinic' — where someone interested in the white hat security field might be willing to take on an audit for the experience and to build a resume. Or, tools such as websites that let you put in a password and see how long it takes to crack it. Or sites where you can put in a URL and it gets poked and prodded by a number of different cracker tools and a 'score' is given. Ideally with suggestions on how to improve. Does anything like that exist? I'm not talking FBI/CIA level security, but just common-sense basics. I've tried to use techniques that improve security, but I don't know how well they work. And I've realized that in the ever growing, fast changing field of computers I'm not going to ever get the knowledge I need to do this myself. I know there are software suites that allow you to sniff and test things on your own, but I'm afraid it's overwhelmingly foreign to me and I just feel like I can't reliably do this myself. Any ideas?"

Comments

Re:Post your password here

[ciderbrew]

No.You'd be able open my luggage if I gave you that.

Re:Post your password here

[Anonymous Coward]

hunter2

Re:Happy Tuesday from The Golden Girls!

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Completely OT, but I've got Karma to burn

The last line of the first verse should read "You're a pal and a confidant". None of the Golden Girls went into space, though I'm sure they thought about sending Sophia there.