Computer Science
2 years ago

Most web vulnerability scanners perform poorly on detecting security weaknesses.

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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
A Quantitative Assessment of the Detection Performance of Web Vulnerability Scanners
Emma Lavens, Pieter Philippaerts, Wouter Joosen

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Web developers use tools to find security issues in their websites. Researchers tested 24 tools to see how well they find 11 types of vulnerabilities. They found that some tools are not good at finding certain types of problems.

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