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Re: Is your website Secure!

#11
post #3

Broken without JavaScript.

Even with JavaScript the main page seems broken; the text box doesn't actually do anything. Works better (for me at least) by using the actual URL (e.g. https://inspect.new/news.ycombinator.com) instead.

EDIT: seems like the form submission is doing a POST to https://inspect.new, which returns a 500 error.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#13
post #8

google.com scores 50/100. This is one of those scanners crappy pentesters use for multi page reports of false positives?

Hah this triggers me.

Last week we got a pentest done on our apps. This week we got some high-prio tickets on our board because they found major security violations!!! Our app, which uses an API, used a dangerous permission! "android.permission.INTERNET"

How they can report this with a straight face, I don't know. Makes me want to go in the security business though, if that is the level of competence I'm absolutely positive that I could do that job and earn a lot more than a generic app developer.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#14
What's better about this vs. Mozilla Observatory.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory (formerly https://observatory.mozilla.org/)

Or Security Headers?

https://securityheaders.com/

Or VENOM?

https://github.com/oshp/oshp-validator

Applaud the effort, these are things that more devs should be aware of when building websites...

Hey some specific feedback on this tool... On mobile, it has a lot of "view port wobble" and the input fields aren't keyed right, it's just using a straight text input field so you don't get any ".com" buttons as you type.

The forms use light gray text on a dark gray background -- that isn't at all aligned with WCAG standards. https://i.imgur.com/BNCC5Dx.png

And it really needs to work on what it thinks is a valid URL. https://i.imgur.com/N1ctafd.png

Small UX stuff like that annoy me more than if a page has a privacy policy setup correctly. (=

Lastly, Permissions Policy... good concept, but still in "DRAFT" so not quite something you can ding users for not adopting just yet.

https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy/

https://caniuse.com/permissions-policy

If you want to play around with it, here's a good tool to generate examples. https://www.permissionspolicy.com/

Oh lastly lastly, there are some really easy tools out there for helping to create a Content Security Policy, these really speed up the process. (Just make sure you disable your ad-blockers before running.)

https://csper.io/generator

https://github.com/april/laboratory

Re: Is your website Secure!

#15
post #8

google.com scores 50/100. This is one of those scanners crappy pentesters use for multi page reports of false positives?

Hah this triggers me. Last week we got a pentest done on our apps. This week we got some high-prio tickets on our board because they found major security violations!!! Our app, which uses an API, used a dangerous permission! "android.permission.INTERNET" How they can report this with a straight face, I don't know. Makes me want to go in the security business though, if that is the level of competence I'm absolutely p…

> Why isn't the app obfuscated, why can it be run on rooted device and why doesn't the app use https with pinning?

The app in question: a wrapper of a PWA ticket purchase webapp which saves no payment info.

Being able to run on rooted device was determined as severe category.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah this triggers me. Last week we got a pentest done on our apps. This week we got some high-prio tickets on our board because they found major security violations!!! Our app, which uses an API, used a dangerous permission! "android.permission.INTERNET" How they can report this with a straight face, I don't know. Makes me want to go in the security business though, if that is the level of competence I'm absolutely p…

> Why isn't the app obfuscated, why can it be run on rooted device and why doesn't the app use https with pinning? The app in question: a wrapper of a PWA ticket purchase webapp which saves no payment info. Being able to run on rooted device was determined as severe category.

This idiocy can be seen very frequently. Even McDonalds app doesn't allow rooted users...

Re: Is your website Secure!

#17
Quite lousy experience on the input field, keeps complaining to enter a valid url.

Additionally it seems to have issues with random sites given as parameter, only working with the displayed examples.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#18
post #17

Quite lousy experience on the input field, keeps complaining to enter a valid url. Additionally it seems to have issues with random sites given as parameter, only working with the displayed examples.

It does not seem to support IDN domains.

Re: Is your website Secure!

#20
That contact form being open automatically and not being able to hide it is annoying, I have to use uBlock to hide it.

Additionally, I get "Connection error, please refresh the page." for a website that clearly is accessible.

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