Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Watcher v1.5.1 has been released

Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as operational configuration issues. Watcher provides detection for vulnerabilities, developers quick sanity checks, and auditors PCI compliance auditing. It looks for issues related to mashups, user-controlled payloads (potential XSS), cookies, comments, HTTP headers, SSL, Flash, Silverlight, referrer leaks, information disclosure, Unicode, and more.

Major Features:

  • Passive detection of security, privacy, and PCI compliance issues in HTTP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, and development frameworks (e.g. ASP.NET, JavaServer)
  • Works seamlessly with complex Web 2.0 applications while you drive the Web browser
  • Non-intrusive
  • Real-time analysis and reporting - findings are reported as they’re found, exportable to XML, HTML, and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Configurable domains with wildcard support
  • Extensible framework for adding new checks


Watcher is built as a plugin for the Fiddler HTTP debugging proxy available at www.fiddlertool.com

Download Watcher from: http://websecuritytool.codeplex.com

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