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 ...

The Linux kernel development community is stepping up its security game once again. Developers, led by key maintainers like Greg Kroah-Hartman, are actively adopting new fuzzing tools to uncover bugs ...

Software developers at Microsoft have been working on a new method of automated testing. A technique called fuzzing relies on inputting mass amounts of data into a program to try and force a crash or ...

A zero-day exploit is any attack that takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability and so hits targets that have had zero days in which to fix that security hole. True zero-day exploits are ...

Artificial intelligence has significant potential for use in cybersecurity – on both sides of the security battle lines. And you don't have to wait for scenarios out of "The Terminator" to see its ...

Like any other shrewd businesspeople, cyber-criminals work with many of the same financial models of reducing risk and exposure while maximizing profitability as the organizations they seek to exploit ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new fuzzing-based technique called 'Blacksmith' that revives Rowhammer vulnerability attacks against modern DRAM devices that bypasses existing mitigations. The emergence ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. For all the advances in ...

VANCOUVER, BC -- Jumping through a series of anti-exploit roadblocks, Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil pulled off an impressive CanSecWest Pwn2Own victory here, hacking into a fully patched 64-bit ...