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 ...

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 ...

Hackers sometimes portray their work as a precise process of learning every detail of a system---even better than its designer---then reaching deep into it to exploit secret flaws. But just as often, ...

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 ...

The following is the full transcript of a live Threatpost chat with Charlie Miller, a vulnerability researcher at Independent Security Evaluators. During this session, Miller discussed his approach to ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS – Black Hat USA 2008 – Hackers' two most popular methods for identifying software vulnerabilities were tested side by side here yesterday, and the votes are in: the fuzzers have it. In the ...

5G will revolutionize many industries, with up to 100 times the speed, 100 times the capacity, and one-tenth the latency compared to 4G LTE. But in addition to providing superior performance, 5G ...

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 ...