full-disclosure - Re: Penetration testing will be dead by 2009

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:53:23 -0500
From: Jared DeMott <jdemott@...cialsecurity.com>
To: James Matthews <nytrokiss@...il.com>
Cc: Untitled <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Penetration testing will be dead by 2009 -
 Mr. Chess

James Matthews wrote:
> I wish! Fortify software has been tested against many open source
> projects and reported a bunch of false positives. Yes i know they are
> working to improve the software.... However i still hold that fuzzing
> will show you some issues that this software cannot.
>
> James
And if you're unsure if that's true ... just look to the iron chef
fuzzing preso from this years blackhat ... fuzzing managed to find a
"better" bug, though both approaches (static and dynamic) found a decent
bug in the software under test.
Happy New Year!
Jared

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