All software contains vulnerabilities, with some flaws worse than others. But should those flaws be made public after the vendor in question has been contacted? As CNET's former resident security ...

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, is a way of analysing a program to find inputs likely to result in exploitable errors. These typically cause some kind of vulnerability that a malicious attacker could ...

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Fuzzing can be a valuable tool for ferreting out zero-day vulnerabilities in software. In hopes of encouraging its use by developers and researchers, Google announced Wednesday it’s now offering free ...

When creating an application, programmers spend a lot of time anticipating what a user will need and how their application should react. The best programmers keep control using tight code while also ...

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, is a way to automatically test applications. It can find errors from memory leaks to buffer overflows. It has garnered interest around safety and security and can be a ...

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," ...

Sentrigo, Inc., a provider of database security software, today announced FuzzOr, an open source fuzzing tool for Oracle databases designed to find vulnerabilities in software applications written in ...