Greetings, Informees!
Since I have a working prototype of a new tool available, I thought you all might like to play with it! (Warning: This is a prototype, it is still buggy, does not have a GUI, and may or may not explode your computrons.)
For my senior project, I’m writing a tool to extend the functionality of the RATS (Rough Auditing Tool for Security) vulnerability scanner. What GRaTS (Graphical RATS and Taint Scanner) does is to attempt to combine several approaches to finding vulnerabilities to help both experienced auditors and greenhorns to get quicker, more accurate results. By identifying points in code where users can affect the data flow (namely through input or things like signals, filesystem tomfoolery, etc) we can distill the code into a condensed version which shows only code dealing with tainted data. Once the code has been condensed, we scan it using RATS and format the output nicely into a GUI, including relevant line numbers, variable names, and any vulnerability information that RATS may have returned. This allows for novices to immediately identify dangerous code operating on tainted data, and allows more weathered folk to perform manual code analysis on tainted data timelines, making manual code analysis faster and more cost-efficient.
Hope you all get a kick out of it! Any new prototypes released will be on the same page, so check back periodically if you’re interested in seeing GRaTS progress.
Cheers!
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Dan Crowley
Hey Jonny,
Has been great tracking with you. Keep me in the loop.
Mark
How very good our Heavenly Father is in ALL things pertaining to His Children
Johnny. Thanks for keeping us posted on car, pay pal and your talk at Def Con. I’m enjoying your living on the edge and praying about your talk as well as the right family to rent your house.
In meantime I’m trying hard not to blend in too quickly with our culture of convenience and prosperity. I don’t feel so guilty already about taking the hot showers. Looking at photos of our trip everyday and about to find the film Invisible Children. That helps.
Hope to join our team as we host Nancy and The Chosen in September here at Grace.
God Bless,
Steve
Just remember that Romans 8:28 never promised an easy road … but those that are faithful to Jesus will be taken care of!! You guys are making a difference!
“28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,[a] who[b] have been called according to his purpose.”
You are in our prayers!! Please email me with specifics!!
Nice site; interesting read (though reading photos is painful). Tad too much religious rhetoric.