Now, Mayhem is beginning to test its hacking skills to work in the real world.
Last year, Brumleypublished resultsfrom feeding almost 2,000 router firmware images through some of the techniques that powered Mayhem.
Over 40 percent, representing 89 different products, had at least one vulnerability.
The software found 14 previously undiscovered vulnerabilities affecting 69 different software builds.
He believes that the work done by the botnet would still need to be rechecked by humans.
Say youre a router company.
Vigna had led the team whose MechanicalPhish software came in third in the DARPA contest last summer.
The software has been released as open source for others to experiment with.
Im not against that, but I feel that it slows down the process, says Brumley.
Source:Technology Review
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