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June Will Be Month of Search Engine Bugs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-on-your-hard-hats dept.

De Garmo writes "A Ukranian hacker known as "MustLive" has announced plans for a Month of Search Engine Bugs project in June 2007. The plan is to shake out cross-site scripting bugs in the most popular search engines (think Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com) and publish details on these flaws. From the article: "[The] purpose of this Month of Bugs is a demonstration of real state with security in search engines, which are the most popular sites in Internet. To let users of search engines and web community as a whole to understand all risks, which search engines bring to them. And also to draw attention of search engines' owners to security issues of their sites.""

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  1. i wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    will we eventually be able to google for these bugs?

  2. definitions! by ThwartedEfforts · · Score: 2, Funny

    The plan is to shake out cross-site scripting bugs in the most popular search engines (think Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com)
    Uh, thanks for explaining what a search engine is, in order to stave off the inevitable questions of "What's a search engine? Why do the editors think we know this?".
  3. Re:Can I make a request? by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're going to make declaration in English
    SilentChris: English Learnings of Grammar for Make Declaration Glorious Nation of Ukraine.
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  4. month of x, month of y by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    can we have a month of free, good porn? i spend all day looking at bugs, i could do with something else for a change...

    1. Re:month of x, month of y by kirun · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you have an ipv6 connection, yes. Wait and see.

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    2. Re:month of x, month of y by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      What about those of us who like bug porn, you insensitive clod!

  5. Wrong bug - by HW_Hack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't June be the month or "June Bugs" ... damn things used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. And I don't even want to talk about Potato Bugs

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