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Security Researcher Finds Hundreds of Browser Bugs

An anonymous reader writes "PC Magazine reports on a very understated late night post to the full-disclosure mailing list, in which security researcher Michael Zalewski shared a fuzzing tool reportedly capable of identifying over a hundred browser bugs. Some of these bugs, he says, may be already known to third parties in China. The report also includes an account of how browser vendors fared fixing these flaws so far. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's response timeline appears depressing."

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  1. Re:Sandbox time? by Xtense · · Score: 3, Funny

    And what if we put the VM... into ANOTHER VM? :O

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  2. Re:Terrific Research, But... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Why is ANYONE with half a brain still using Microsoft browsers?

    Why is anyone with half a brain still using any Microsoft software at all?

    People with half a brain should be using Linux instead?

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  3. Re:Pass the salt please by eulernet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once again MS not willing or just plain not wanting to work with a security expert and then said expert doesn't buy their crap and releases on the schedule set.

    It's not that Microsoft doesn't want to work with security experts, it's just that they don't have any money for that ;-)