Browsers feel the fuzz

Browsers feel the fuzz
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-04-12

Vancouver, CANADA--Last month, security researcher HD Moore decided to write a simple program that would mangle the code found in Web pages and gauge the effect such data would have on the major browsers. The result: hundreds of crashes and the discovery of several dozen flaws.

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Browsers feel the fuzz 2006-04-14
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)

Nice story. I only have one issue. I'm not actually a computer science student.

I'm part of the "Computer Information Systems" program, which is part of our business school, rather than our computer science department....

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Re: Browsers feel the fuzz 2006-04-14
Robert Lemos (1 replies)

Sorry about that, Matt. It's been corrected. Didn't mean to make you an engineer.

-R...

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Re: Re: Browsers feel the fuzz 2006-04-14
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)

No worries. If I had my choice, I'd be in the engineering curriculum. Unfortunately, though, I'm not so good at math. :-(...

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Re: Re: Re: Browsers feel the fuzz 2006-07-24
The-Griz

Nice to see a home town guy getting some "tech lime light" My wife works at SEMO. I'm an IT professional contracted to P&G.

Congrats on the article, it was very interesting.

The-Griz...

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$hame again! 2006-04-18
assurbanipal

I thought browser bugz were no longer a la page, since people used to have fun fuzzing them in the past. It appears though that I'm plainly wrong... particularly, IE confirms utterly unsuited to surf the Internet.

If only Micro$oft people hadn't immense egos and scrapped IE instead... that'd be the...

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Browsers feel the fuzz 2006-07-07
Anonymous

Somebody please put this guy away. People like him are not helping the issue of computer security. Put him in the same cell with his cohort Bill Gates........

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