The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity

Really interesting "systematization of knowledge" paper: "SoK: The Ghost Trilemma" Abstract: Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the security of networked platforms. User identity is central to the vectors of attack and manipulation employed in these contexts. However...

LiquidationQueue brings centralization risk in the contract.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact the owner has too much unilateral control over liquidations and can manipulate te country in the following ways: The owner of LiquidationQueue sees a profitable liquidation opportunity Before anyone else can liquidate, they use LiquidationQueue to place ...

Fleek Network Releases New Whitepaper for Decentralized Edge Platform

By Owais Sultan Brooklyn, New York, 31 July 2023 – Fleek Network has released a new whitepaper describing the decentralized edge… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fleek Network Releases New Whitepaper for Decentralized Edge Platform...

Insecure minimum threshold in _rotateSigners function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Insecure minimum threshold in rotateSigners function can cause execution of malicious multisig proposals with unexpected results. Proof of Concept The rotateSigners is the only function which can initialize multisig parameters. This function has zero che...

Mastodon Social Network Patches Critical Flaws Allowing Server Takeover

Mastodon, a popular decentralized social network, has released a security update to fix critical vulnerabilities that could expose millions of users to potential attacks. Mastodon is known for its federated model, consisting of thousands of separate servers called "instances," and it has over 14...

Don't Join Threads—Make Instagram's 'Twitter Killer' Join You

Meta’s Twitter alternative promises that it will work with decentralized platforms, giving you greater control of your data. You can hold the company to that—if you don't sign up...

Code injection

Vega is a decentralized trading platform that allows pseudo-anonymous trading of derivatives on a blockchain. Prior to version 0.71.6, a vulnerability exists that allows a malicious validator to trick the Vega network into re-processing past Ethereum events from Vega’s Ethereum bridge. For exampl...

CVE-2023-35163 Vega's validators able to submit duplicate transactions

Vega is a decentralized trading platform that allows pseudo-anonymous trading of derivatives on a blockchain. Prior to version 0.71.6, a vulnerability exists that allows a malicious validator to trick the Vega network into re-processing past Ethereum events from Vega’s Ethereum bridge. For exampl...

CVE-2023-35163

Vega before 0.71.6 is affected: a malicious validator can trick the network into re-processing past Ethereum-bridge events, enabling multiple replays (e.g., a 100 USDT deposit crediting 5,000 USDT across a party’s Vega general account). The flaw arises from how ChainEvent data can be duplicated b...

CVE-2023-35163 Vega's validators able to submit duplicate transactions

Vega is a decentralized trading platform that allows pseudo-anonymous trading of derivatives on a blockchain. Prior to version 0.71.6, a vulnerability exists that allows a malicious validator to trick the Vega network into re-processing past Ethereum events from Vega’s Ethereum bridge. For exampl...

Improper Input Validation

Vega is a decentralized trading platform that allows pseudo-anonymous trading of derivatives on a blockchain. Prior to version 0.71.6, a vulnerability exists that allows a malicious validator to trick the Vega network into re-processing past Ethereum events from Vega’s Ethereum bridge. For exampl...

Fedora: Security Advisory for syncthing (FEDORA-2023-bf86df7ee8)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: syncthing-1.23.5-1.fc38

Syncthing replaces other file synchronization services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. Using syncthing, that control is...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: syncthing-1.23.5-1.fc37

Syncthing replaces other file synchronization services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. Using syncthing, that control is...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: git security update

An update for git is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for eac...

Web3 Needs A Truly Decentralized Infrastructure That IPFS Alone Cannot Deliver

By Waqas Web3, the next evolution of the internet, requires a truly decentralized infrastructure that goes beyond what IPFS InterPlanetary File System can offer on its own. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Web3 Needs A Truly Decentralized Infrastructure That IPFS Alone...

RLSA-2023:3246 Important: git security update

Git is a distributed revision control system with a decentralized architecture. As opposed to centralized version control systems with a client-server model, Git ensures that each working copy of a Git repository is an exact copy with complete revision history. This not only allows the user to wo...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-git227-git security update

An update for rh-git227-git is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilit...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: git security update

An update for git is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: git security update

An update for git is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for eac...