Month of Bugs

Month of Bugs

The Month of Bugs is an increasingly popular strategy used by security researchers to draw attention to the lax security procedures of commercial software corporations. The tenet is these corporations have shown themselves to be unresponsive and uncooperative to security alerts and that "responsible disclosure" isn't working properly where they're concerned.

The original "month of bugs" was the Month of Browser Bugs (MoBB) run by security researcher HD Moore. [ [http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3618126 InternetNews Realtime IT News – The Month of The Browser Bugs Begins ] ] The project produced exploits each day for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera. [ [http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html Browser Fun: July 2006 ] ]

Subsequent projects include the Month of Kernel Bugs which published kernel bugs for Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows as well as four wireless driver bugs; [ [http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/ Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) archive ] ] the Month of Apple Bugs conducted by researchers Kevin Finisterre and LMH which published bugs related to OS X [ [http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/ the Month of Apple Bugs ] ] ; and the Month of PHP Bugs sponsored by the Hardened PHP team which published 44 PHP bugs. [ [http://php-security.org the Month of PHP Bugs ] ]

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