The world's most attractive hacker group, CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), announced the release of a web auditing tool called the Goolag Scanner. Goolag Scanner enables everyone to audit his or her own web site via Google. The scanner technology is based on a form of vulnerability research developed by Johnny I Hack Stuff called "Google hacking".

    cDc spokesmodel Oxblood Ruffin said: "It's no big secret that the Web is the platform", "And this platform pretty much sucks from a security perspective. Goolag Scanner provides one more tool for web site owners to patch up their online properties. We've seen some pretty scary holes through random tests with the scanner in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. If I were a government, a large corporation, or anyone with a large web site, I'd be downloading this beast and aiming it at my site yesterday. The vulnerabilities are that serious."

    Goolag Scanner will be released open source under the GNU Affero General Public license. It is dedicated to the memory of the founder of the Chaos Computer Club, and a true champion of privacy rights and social justice, Wau Holland.

    Goolag Scanner is a standalone windows GUI based application. It uses one xml-based configuration file for its settings. All dorks coming with the distribution of gS are kept inside one file.

    Based in Lubbock, Texas, CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) is the most influential computer underground group in the world. The cDc alumni list reads like a Who's Who of hacking and includes a former Presidential advisor on Internet security, among others. The group is further distinguished by publishing the longest running e-zine on the Internet [est. 1984], stretching the limits of the First Amendment, and fighting anyone or any government that aspires to limit free speech.