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07-04-2008, 12:07 AM
CWmike writes "Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications. Ratproxy, released under an Apache 2.0 software license, looks for a variety of coding problems in Web applications. A 2006 survey by the Web Application Security Consortium found that 85.57 percent of 31,373 sites were vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, 26.38 percent were vulnerable to SQL injection and 15.70 percent had other faults that could lead to data loss."http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/03/225211 (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/03/225211&from=rss)
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