[attrition] Five Dollar Security; You Get What You Pay For

[security curmudgeon]

http://attrition.org/security/rants/you_get_what_you_pay_for/

Five Dollar Security; You Get What You Pay For
Mon Jan 2 03:00:32 CST 2012

The old phrase "If it looks too good to be true, it probably is" is very 
common, and usually well founded. After seeing an offer for a $5 "security 
status" of a website, we just had to test it out. Since the service is 
being offered by a Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) with 13 years of 
experience, who has "wrote professional tools for the job", we expected 
the results of a commercial vulnerability scanner such as Nessus, Nexpose, 
or OpenVAS at the very least.

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