publications VS wstg

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wstg

The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services. (by OWASP)
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publications wstg
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1,315 6,661
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Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0
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publications

Posts with mentions or reviews of publications. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-14.
  • Skiff: Various Privacy Failures
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
    Disagree, their reputation is tied to their audit quality.

    But I'm pretty sure in this case the scope was bad. Like they coukd have had audits on "Do I use OpenSSL well?" and then misrepresent that all their privacy claims were audited.

    Now it seems like Skiff conveniently didn't allow Trail of Bits to publish their reports, they are usually here: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/tree/master/revi...

    Disclaimer, I have used Trail of Bits service in the past (and 2 other auditors for an security campaign on a blockchain, cryptography + networking product).

  • The Lisk v4.0 security audit 🔐
    1 project | /r/Lisk | 5 Dec 2023
  • PyPI has completed its first security audit
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
    Link to the report: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/revi...

    They seem to not have analysed client-side of PIP itself, but I suppose there isn't anything you could say that isn't already obvious to everyone.

  • SimpleX Chat security assessment by Trail of Bits [pdf]
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023
  • Thoughts on Skiff? What do you like? What would you want to see improve?
    2 projects | /r/privacy | 3 Jul 2023
    Audits are mentioned on the Trail of Bits website https://github.com/trailofbits/publications and the Skiff one https://skiff.com/transparency. Skiff has been externally audited 4 times.
  • SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)
    6 projects | /r/privacy | 28 May 2023
    Here's the URL https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/SimpleXChat.pdf It was in the article I have already linked.
  • Solidity digest fortnightly / 17-30 apr 2023
    3 projects | /r/solidity | 30 Apr 2023
    MYSO Finance Security Assesment by Trail of Bits
  • Audit Firms Ranking
    3 projects | /r/ethdev | 28 Apr 2023
    Trail of Bits
  • Transparency at Skiff
    3 projects | /r/Skiff | 25 Apr 2023
    Hi! I'm Skiff's CEO. We've had 3 security audits, including 2 from Trail of Bits - one of the best security auditing firms in the world https://github.com/trailofbits/publications. Skiff Mail is also open-source: https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-mail as is our whitepaper https://skiff.com/whitepaper We've also been in the news quite a bit: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/17/23075804/skiff-mail-email-privacy, https://www.wsj.com/articles/encryption-bans-what-is-this-russia-hacking-online-privacy-security-data-signal-whatsapp-emails-protection-11675436242 (I wrote this with our team!), https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/russia-skiff-block/, and more, even though we're only a year old. We collect no personally identifying information - not even IP addresses used - no backup emails, phones, etc. - no advertising, and we end-to-end encrypt BOTH email subject + body and don't have any metadata (time sent/received an exception). What can we do to share more of this with more people? We're a younger company but it's so important this is made public.
  • Skiff Apps
    3 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 25 Apr 2023
    Hi! I'm Skiff's CEO. We've had 3 security audits, including 2 from Trail of Bits - likely the best security auditing firm in the world https://github.com/trailofbits/publications. Skiff Mail is also open-source: https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-mail as is our whitepaper https://skiff.com/whitepaper

wstg

Posts with mentions or reviews of wstg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing publications and wstg you can also consider the following projects:

slither - Static Analyzer for Solidity and Vyper

OWASP-Testing-Checklist - OWASP based Web Application Security Testing Checklist is an Excel based checklist which helps you to track the status of completed and pending test cases.

manticore - Symbolic execution tool

owasp-masvs - The OWASP MASVS (Mobile Application Security Verification Standard) is the industry standard for mobile app security.

echidna - Ethereum smart contract fuzzer

API-Security-Checklist - Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

verified-smart-contra

PayloadsAllTheThings - A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF

codeql - CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security

bugbounty-cheatsheet - A list of interesting payloads, tips and tricks for bug bounty hunters.

security - Materials related to security: docs, checklists, processes, etc...

Damn-Vulnerable-Bank - Damn Vulnerable Bank is designed to be an intentionally vulnerable android application. This provides an interface to assess your android application security hacking skills.