Google has set up a research grant program to help and sponsor security researchers and academics find vulnerabilities in browser JavaScript engines. The program has one rule, namely that the bugs ...

At Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Atlanta yesterday, the company announced the availability of a new cloud-based service for developers that will allow them to test application binaries for security ...

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When you're in the kitchen and throw pasta against the wall, it might stick so that you can tell whether it's cooked. When you're in computer security and you throw things against a target's "wall," ...

Google LLC today announced the release of ClusterFuzzLite with an aim to make it easy to integrate fuzzing – a technique for finding bugs in software using random or invalid data – into software ...

Google revealed today that OSS-Fuzz, the company's automated fuzzing service/bot, has identified and reported over 9,000 vulnerabilities in widely used open source projects in the past two years.

Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today. Office developers found the bugs by ...

While fuzzing can find many different bugs, it can't find all of them, Opstad admitted, but referring to the old joke about the hiker changing from boots to running shoes, he said it is only necessary ...