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Tamper Data for Fun and Security

November 04th, 2006

I can't believe I just discovered this now. The Tamper Data extension for Firefox.

TamperData is an extension to track and modify http/https requests. It is great for security testing and just in general trying to break your applications. In fact, if breaking is what you want to do, check out the pre-packaged built in SQL Injections, Cross Site Scripting (XXS) vulnerabilities and other goodies.

Here is the options screen.
Tamper Data options

I've installed it on Firefox 2 no prob, and its pretty straightforward (although these screen captures are from Firefox 1.5). So far the default Code Igniter validation/security is working like a champ, but I've only spent a few minutes playing around.

Here is Tamper Data in action
Tamper Data in action

It also collects data about load time, pages and other useful goodies (including graphing).
Tamper Data getting data

I'd love to see some other users with some web-app security experience take it for a test drive.

Thanks Adam Judson for this great Firefox extension.

This entry was made on November 04th, 2006 @ 17:13 and filed into Browsers.

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