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title: "Google's Web Application Security Scanner"
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# Google's Web Application Security Scanner

> skipfish - web application security scanner ’Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares.

**skipfish - web application security scanner** "Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes."

**Installing skipfish :** ` _Get libidn_ wget -qO - "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.18.tar.gz" | tar zxf - && cd cd libidn-1.18 && ./configure && make && sudo make install _Get skifish_ wget http://skipfish.googlecode.com/files/skipfish-1.05b.tgz | tar zxf - && cd skipfish && make ` _Read the official wiki[here](http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/wiki/SkipfishDoc)_