June Will Be Month of Search Engine Bugs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday May 20, 2007 @04:23AM 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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SLAVA UKRAINA by Anonymous Coward · 2007-05-20 04:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

SLAVA UKRAINA!!!!!
Small Banks by daeg · 2007-05-20 05:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Small banks and/or credit unions couldn't afford it.

Small banks are not currently the ones losing the most money. It's the big banks. Yet it would instantly be turned into a "Citi.bank offers a guaranteed secure URL -- does your credit union?" advertisement, further diminishing the marketshare of smaller, independent banks and credit unions. Remember, competition is GOOD, especially in the financial arena.

In the long term, it still solves absolutely nothing, but makes a pile of money for whoever controls .bank.