Hewlett Packard launched a free Web security scanning tool Monday specifically geared to help Flash developers protect their Web sites against malicious security threats and reduce the risk of hackers accessing sensitive data.

The new tool, known as HP SWFScan, is specifically aimed at helping Flash developers detect and monitor increasingly sophisticated security threats, such as cross site scripting and SQL injection attacks, that are often conducted via Flash applications.

It’s nice that the tools tests their applications for security threats. Known security threats anyway. I’ve never used HGH, but maybe if I had I might have a better outlook on this matter. Sorry if I sound pessimistic, but it seems a lot like locking your doors but leaving your windows wide open. What about the unknown security threats?

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