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Researchers add software bugs to reduce the number of… software bugs
Researchers are adding bugs to experimental software code in order to ultimately wind up with programs that have fewer vulnerabilities.
The idea is to insert a known quantity of vulnerabilities into code, then see how many of them are discovered by bug-finding tools.
By analyzing the reasons bugs escape detection, developers can create more effective bug-finders, according to researchers at New York University in collaboration with others from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Northeastern University.
They created large-scale automated vulnerability addition (LAVA), which is a low-cost technique that adds the vulnerabilities. “The only way to evaluate a bug finder is to control the number of bugs in a program, which is exactly what we do with LAVA,” says Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, a computer science and engineering professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering.
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Microsoft slams Android updates, claims Google ships a ‘big pile of… code’ – The Verge
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Microsoft slams Android updates, claims Google ships a 'big pile of… code'
The Verge Microsoft's Windows chief, Terry Myerson, isn't pulling any punches against Android this week. Speaking during a keynote appearance at Microsoft's Ignite conference in Chicago, Myerson knocked Google's Android update plans. "Google ships a big pile of… Microsoft bashes Android's security, touts 858 million consumers updated each … Windows Chief Believes Android Users Are “Increasingly Exposed” Due To … Microsoft says Google ships a “pile of code”, kills Patch Tuesday for Windows 10 |