Orlando, Florida -- Microsoft security whiz Michael Howard is urging developers in the Windows ecosystem to adopt fuzz testing as a critical part of the software creation process, stressing that the ...

Infosec Insider Derek Manky discusses how new technologies and economic models are facilitating fuzzing in today’s security landscape. Fuzzing is a term that sounds hard to take seriously. But it ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that it’s open-sourcing two new projects, including a new fuzzing tool for finding vulnerabilities in software and an authorization policy language for controlling ...

Announcing the fifth release candidate for the Linux kernel version 4.14, Linus Torvalds has revealed that fuzzing is producing a steady stream of security fixes. Fuzzing involves stress testing a ...

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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 ...

Fuzzbuzz, a graduate of the most recent Y Combinator class, got the kind of news every early-stage startup wants to hear when it landed a $2.7 million seed round to help deliver a special class of ...

Fuzzing is an excellent technique for locating vulnerabilities in software. The basic premise is to deliver intentionally malformed input to target software and detect failure. A complete fuzzer has ...

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 ...