Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) releases Goolag Scanner to make the web safer

Goolag Scanner provides free auditing tool for web site owners to patch up their online properties.

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2008 -- Today CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), the world's most attractive hacker group, announced the release of Goolag Scanner, a web auditing tool. Goolag Scanner enables everyone to audit his or her own web site via Google. The scanner technology is based on "Google hacking," a form of vulnerability research developed by Johnny I Hack Stuff. He's a lovely fellow. Go buy him a drink.

"It's no big secret that the Web is the platform," said cDc spokesmodel Oxblood Ruffin. "And this platform pretty much sucks from a security perspective. Goolag Scanner provides one more tool for web site owners to patch up their online properties. We've seen some pretty scary holes through random tests with the scanner in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. If I were a government, a large corporation, or anyone with a large web site, I'd be downloading this beast and aiming it at my site yesterday. The vulnerabilities are that serious."

Goolag Scanner will be released open source under the GNU Affero General Public license. It is dedicated to the memory of Wau Holland, founder of the Chaos Computer Club, and a true champion of privacy rights and social justice.

GOOLAG SCANNER FUNCTIONS AND FEATURES

Goolag Scanner is a standalone windows GUI based application. It uses one xml-based configuration file for its settings. All dorks coming with the distribution of gS are kept inside one file.

Press Contact
Oxblood Ruffin
oxblood at hacktivismo.com

About Goolag Scanner
http://www.goolag.org/

About CULT OF THE DEAD COW
Based in Lubbock, Texas, CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) is the most influential computer underground group in the world. The cDc alumni list reads like a Who's Who of hacking and includes a former Presidential advisor on Internet security, among others. The group is further distinguished by publishing the longest running e-zine on the Internet [est. 1984], stretching the limits of the First Amendment, and fighting anyone or any government that aspires to limit free speech. For more information, please visit www.cultdeadcow.com

About Johnny I Hack Stuff
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Long

About Wau Holland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wau_Holland
and here
http://www.ccc.de/?language=en

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