We are really happy to assist The University of Texas at Austin Information Security Office with this highly noble cause, of providing security services for free to non-profit organizations.
We were so inspired that have decided to follow suit with our Non-profit programme as well.
Our golden, offline, unrestricted license for Spectre Scan, provided in order to run thousands of scanner instances in parallel from thousands of machines, roughly worthing 1,000,000 euros, is an investment in research we do not at all regret! 😄
Spectre Scan doesn't disappoint either.
Keep it up!
You know you have our support!
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Edit: Turns out they were using Arachni (Spectre Scan's Public Source predecessor) for roughly a decade, I had no idea.
The UT Austin ISO project page.
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Presentation event:Â https://events.educause.edu/cybersecurity-and-privacy-professionals-conference/2026/agenda/dorkbot-a-decade-in-retrospect--building-a-worldwide-web-vulnerability-scanner
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You are quite welcome, any time. 🙂
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To quote the team:
UT Austin Information Security Office’s Dorkbot web vulnerability discovery service has used Spectre Scan and its predecessors for over a decade to find hundreds of thousands of actionable vulnerabilities in the higher education web space.
We’ve tested similar tools over the years and found that not only is Spectre Scan more flexible in its configuration for our purposes, but the vulnerabilities it reports are consistently more comprehensive and more accurate than the competition.
Senior Cybersecurity Risk Analyst
Threat Management Team
Information Security Office
University of Texas at Austin
John Gordon
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Cheers to John Gordon for reaching out! We're happy to help in any way possible.