Nosey Parker’s Ongoing Machine Learning Development
Nosey Parker is Praetorian’s secret detection tool, used regularly in our offensive security engagements. It combines regular expression-based detection with machine learning (ML) to find misplaced secrets in source code and web data. We originally wrote a blog post in March, 2022, detailing our approach to integrating machine learning into secrets detection. We have not […]
Announcing Nosey Parker Update to v0.14.0
Last week we published a new release of Nosey Parker, our fast and low-noise secrets detector. The v0.14.0 release adds significant features that make it easier for a human to review findings, and a number of smaller features and changes that improve signal-to-noise. The full release notes are available here. Release highlights File names and […]
Find More Secrets with Nosey Parker v.0.12.0
On March 2, 2023, we issued some updates to our secrets sniffing tool, Nosey Parker, which has been available as an Apache 2-licensed open-source project since December 2022. We originally developed the full version to embed in Chariot, our Attack Surface Management solution, because we needed a secrets detection tool that was as fast as […]
Nosey Parker RegEx: A Positive Community Response
On December 7, 2022, Praetorian Labs released a regular expression-based (RegEx) version of our Nosey Parker secrets scanning tool (see press release). This version improves on two primary pain points the community has historically encountered with other secrets scanning tools. First, Nosey Parker RegEx offers the fastest secrets scanning capability on the market–100 gigabytes of […]