Security

Hacking everything, by Chris Evans / scarybeasts

Saturday, January 28, 2012

The dirty secret of browser security #1

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Here's a curiousity that's developing in modern browser security: The security of a given browser is dominated by how much effort it...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Alert: vsftpd download backdoored

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[With thanks to Mathias Kresin for being the first to notice] An incident, what fun! Earlier today, I was alerted that a vsftpd download fro...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

libxml vulnerability and interesting integer issues

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A while ago, I was playing with grammar-based XPath fuzzing and I found and fixed an interesting libxml bug. The commit, for the curious, is...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Bug bounties vs. black (& grey) markets

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I'm just back from the fun that was HiTB Amsterdam 2011. (Plug: you should check out one of the HiTB series if you haven't yet; Dhil...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Fiddling with Chromium's new certificate pinning

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Over the past few years, there have been various high-profile incidents and concerns with the Certificate Authority-based infrastructure tha...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Multi-browser heap address leak in XSLT

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It's not often that I find a bug that affects multiple different codebases in the same way, but here is an interesting info-leak bug tha...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Busy Chrome day...

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I did a bunch of fairly interesting things with my corporate hat on today (not to be confused with any of my personal research ;-) Firstly, ...
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