Security News

Yahoo open-sources Gryffin, a large scale web security scanning platform (Help Net Security)
2015-09-28 12:17

Yahoo has open-sourced Gryffin, a scanning platform for web applications. The developers' goal was to create a security scanner that will be able to both discover as much of the application footpri...

Review:  Encryptr: Open source cloud-based password manager (Help Net Security)
2015-09-10 09:00

Encryptr is based on the Crypton JavaScript framework. The whole idea behind the Crypton concept is to enable developers to store data on the remote server in such way that the server doesn’t know wha...

Open source Sleepy Puppy tool finds XSS bugs in target apps and beyond (Help Net Security)
2015-09-03 13:52

Since Monday, security pros can add another XSS-finding tool to their arsenal, as Netflix has open sourced their cross-site scripting payload management framework dubbed "Sleepy Puppy." Sleepy Pupp...