"New Cybersecurity Tool Covers Some Yawning Website Gaps"

A new and simple scanning tool has revealed some flaws in widely used web cybersecurity programs. The tool also demonstrates how these flaws can be addressed. Websites and web applications have recently become a popular target for cybercriminals resulting in an increasing number of commercial scanners designed to detect vulnerabilities in website architecture. According to Dr. Yousef Amer, a mechanical and systems engineer at the University of South Australia, and part of the international team of researchers who built the new tool, the group has identified that most of the publicly available scanners contain vulnerabilities and are not doing what they are intended to do. The researchers assessed 11 publicly available web scanners against the "OWASP Top Ten," which lists the 10 most critical cybersecurity risks to web applications. The researchers developed a prototype tool to counter all these vulnerabilities. It is described as a black box security assessment tool that finds vulnerabilities in a website by trying to break in from the outside. This article continues to discuss the new cybersecurity tool that covers website vulnerabilities.

Cosmos Magazine reports "New Cybersecurity Tool Covers Some Yawning Website Gaps"