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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Rapid adoption of cloud computing and web services has resulted in myriad use cases in all market segments. These use cases are governed by purpose-built applications running on many operating ...

If you have read my blog here before, you might know me from the PROTOS project, and maybe as an author on VoIP security. PROTOS was fun, but it is really far away from real fuzzing. VoIP was ...

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 ...

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," ...