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A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2012-03-05 · latest 2020-02-05

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  1. https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman link to mentioned app for those interested.
    comment by thrownaway954 · 2020-02-05 · in Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (2016)
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    Brakeman security scanner no longer open source
    story by abraham · 2019-01-30 · 0 comments
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    Synopsys bought security scanner Brakeman and removed its open source license
    story by dankohn1 · 2019-01-23 · 2 comments
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    Brakeman Static Analysis Security Scanner Is Now Under Creative Commons License
    story by altharaz · 2018-06-30 · 0 comments
  5. …lot of information specific to your language, like http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html and https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman to look at real apps, to see what can go wrong.
    comment by justsorneguy · 2016-09-16 · in Ask HN: Best route from developer to pentester
  6. …the codebase without running the code. Under the hood, it's based on the Brakeman open source tool: https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman It looks for all the big issues (XSS, CSRF, SQLi). In many cases it means keeping track of where…
    comment by brynary · 2013-03-19 · in Code Climate launches Security Monitor
  7. …it should check the Gemfile also. Seems like a good place for it. The opinion is mixed though. https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman/issues/276 A complementary command-line tool would be fine too.
    comment by boonedocks · 2013-02-28 · in Don't find out about Ruby vulnerabilities through Hacker News and Twitter
  8. A couple that I know of which are based on the security side of things are Brakeman ( https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman ) and Scanny ( https://github.com/openSUSE/scanny ) on the open source side. On the commercial side I know…
    comment by raesene2 · 2012-09-20 · in John Carmack on Static Code Analysis
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    Brakeman: RoR Vulnerability Scanner
    story by toni · 2012-03-05 · 0 comments