Slack: Team members can trigger arbitrary code execution in Slack Desktop Apps via HTML Notifications

A vulnerability in Slack's desktop clients allowed a user within a Slack team to send a malicious link to a teammate which would cause code to be executed on that victim's local computer. The issue hinged on a special type of Slack notification called HTML notifications. We resolved the issue by...

Electronegativity: An Open Source Electron Security Auditor

PenTestIT RSS Feed Electron is a pretty recent framework for building desktop applications and there are not many tools that deal with the security part either. There is a electronjs security checklist, providing guidelines for building secure applications, but there is no tool per-se - atleast...