Matt Cutts Promoting Security By Obscurity?
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Matt Cutts has recently posted an article about Fuzz Testing.
For those of you that are unaware fuzz testing is the art of testing a piece of software by giving it random input. The reason this can be effective is that it can trigger unforeseen bugs within an application. In fact Matt gives an example of tests carried out on UNIX software which found that a substantial percentage of softwares were vulnerable and the fuzz testing caused the application to crash. (more…)