something i don’t do as often as i should is talk about security and more specifically vulnerability scanning here on the old neglected blog. but here goes…

i am familiar and have enjoyed using acunetix for the past few years in a corporate environment to look for basic and even more complex web based application vulnerabilities in an automated fashion. however,  i just stumbled across another web vulnerability scanner called netsparker that is worth a look too. i haven’t done any benchmarking between the two and i would probably not have the best test bed to do a valid comparison but i have read several articles speaking well of acunetix and i haven’t read much on netsparker, so i guess only time will tell.  here is one article ranking web vuln scanners by a “reader’s choice” poll.

despite the age of this, i recommend checking out this list for other scanners to try.

i have been working with the bakestress over at monkey bread bakery to get monkey business up and running.

Monkey Business is a new blog where you can keep up with monkey bread’s delicious whereabouts!

Go check it out!  I wish monkey bread bakery the best of luck with the new blog!

my day job is being an information security analyst…so i tend get a little serious when it comes to security features.  so when i heard about this new gmail feautre i figured i would pass along the information.

gmail for a while has offered https if you wanted it.  however, you had to manually type in https://gmail.com for it to work.  now you don’t have to.  go to your gmail account now and go to settings at the bottom of the settings page there will be the following option:

select “always use https” and you will no longer have to worry about your data being transmitted unsecurely!