October 2006 - Michael Sutton's Blog -

October 2006 - Michael Sutton's Blog

  • Fun With Google Code Search

    Yesterday, Google Labs launched a search tool that has many developers salivating. It's called Google Code Search (GCS) and allows developers to search source code from other projects to assist them in finding code for reuse. It has some impressive...
  • Microsoft Black Tuesday - October 2006

    And the file format vulnerabilities keep on coming! If the 2006 Microsoft security bulletins have had a theme, that theme has been file format vulnerabilities in media formats and Office documents. We kicked off 2006 with an out of cycle patch for the...
  • The True Value of Third Party Patches

    The number of so called 0day vulnerabilities seems to be on the rise and in response to this threat, a number of security researchers are pooling their skills to produce third party patches. There are plenty of arguments for why we're seeing this...