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Project Zero, Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers
Project Zero is Google's new security project to dedicated to finding flaws on the Internet. Project Zero objective is to reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks and make the Internet safer. So far Google security team have worked hard to secure their products like Google Search, Gmail, and Drive. And with this project, it plans to look into non-Google technologies. It wants to locate and report large numbers of vulnerabilities and conduct new research into mitigations, exploitation, program analysis. Once the vulnerabilities are located, they will notify software's vendor about the bug and they will give them 60-90 days to resolve the issue. After the deadline, it will make the information public from Project Zero website. I think it's the right way to do it and this will motivate other software vendors to fix their vulnerabilities faster.
Project Zero wants to assemble the best and brightest security researchers to track down and neutering the most insidious security flaws in the world's software. The team has recruited security experts like Chris Evans who led the Google's Chrome Security Team earlier, Ben Hawkes, who has been credited with discovering dozens of bugs in software like Adobe Flash and Microsoft Office apps, and George Hotz, who was able to crack AT&T iPhone in 2007.
Project Zero is a good initiative by Google. It is recommendable their effort to improve Internet security for all Internet users. I hope other giants like Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook will follow Google's lead to liberating Internet. Google might be spending more on this project. It also helps Google to recruit top talents. Google also benefits having more users on the internet clicking ad on Google related sites. According to Evans, "People deserve to use the internet without fear that vulnerabilities out there can ruin their privacy with a single website visit." But time will tell if it was Google's PR stunt or really trying to help the Internet community.
References:
- Greenberg, A. (July 15, 2014). Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers <<< Wired. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/
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