Month of bugs
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A month of bugs is a strategy used by security researchers to draw attention to the lax security procedures of commercial software corporations.
Researchers have started such a project for software products where they believe corporations have shown themselves to be unresponsive and uncooperative to security alerts. For example, when a company does not fix the error after a Responsible disclosure, one may find and disclose one security vulnerability each day for one month.
Examples
[edit | edit source]The original "Month of Bugs" was the Month of Browser Bugs (MoBB) run by security researcher H. D. Moore.[1]
Subsequent similar projects include:
- The Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) which published kernel bugs for Mac OS X (now macOS), Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows, as well as four wireless driver bugs.[2][3][4]
- The Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB) conducted by researchers Kevin Finisterre and LMH which published bugs related to Mac OS X.[5][6][7]
- The Month of PHP Bugs sponsored by the Hardened PHP team which published 44 PHP bugs.[8][9][10]
- The Month of AI Bugs conducted by Johann Rehberger published bugs for agentic AI systems throughout the month of August 2025. [11][12]
See also
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Further reading
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) archive
- Kernel Fun: Month of the Kernel Bugs blog
- Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB) archive
- Apple Fun: Month of the Apple Buggs blog
- Info-pull.com blog: A complementary blog from the hosts of MoKB and MoAB
- The Month of PHP Security
- Agentic ProbLLMs - The Month of AI Bugs 2025
- Month of AI Bugs Blog Posts