Georgia Tech finds 11 security flaws in popular internet browsers

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/giot-gtf081315.php

Public Release: 13-Aug-2015
Georgia Tech finds 11 security flaws in popular internet browsers
Georgia Institute of Technology

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing developed a new cyber security analysis method that discovered 11 previously unknown Internet browser security flaws. Their findings were honored with the Internet Defense Prize, an award presented by Facebook in partnership with USENIX this week at the 24th USENIX Security Symposium.

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The 11 vulnerabilities identified by Georgia Tech have been confirmed and fixed by vendors.

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The work was selected for Facebook's second ever Internet Defense Prize award, which recognizes superior quality research that combines a working prototype with significant contributions to the security of the Internet -- particularly in the areas of protection and defense. The award is meant to recognize the direction of the research and to inspire researchers to focus on high-impact areas.

"Designing defensive security technology has never been more important, and that's why we are once again offering the Internet Defense Prize to stimulate high quality research in this area," said Ioannis Papagiannis, security engineering manager at Facebook.

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