Re: OWASP Top 10 penetration testing software?

Zaki Akhmad <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.penetration
Message-ID <CAE7Ck-SZPDmH12xs+pccNOKovO0BEUzGh8c8UKkt8jTpnGGZDw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:44 AM, psiinon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You should be careful with scanners that claim to test "the OWASP Top Ten".
> For example, "Insecure Cryptographic Storage" is one of the OWASP Top
> Ten but this is typically only detectable server side, so no web app
> scanner will find it :)

So Simon, a penetration testing won't cover all?

The simplest test case for this insecure cryptographic storage is by
requesting a forgot password. If the web application sends your
password in clear text, then you found the issue.

-- 
Zaki Akhmad
OWASP Indonesia

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