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Charlie, implementing ITrust

ActiveX security faces storm before calm

Using a custom-built data fuzzing tool, HD Moore pinpointed more than 100 vulnerabilities in the ActiveX controls included with the default installation of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Data fuzzing tools combine knowledge of the input parameters accepted by a software package with a tenacious and systematic mangling of the data to discover how applications react to various permutations, whether valid or invalid.

Read more at SecurityFocus.
Published Wednesday, August 02, 2006 7:14 AM by charlie

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