Security Incentivization: An Empirical Study of How Micropayments Impact Code Security

Security often receives insufficient developer attention because it does not directly generate visible value, leading to underinvestment in practice. We evaluate a countermeasure by team-level incentives tied to measurable security improvements over time. Our semi-automated mechanism aggregates...

A user can 'borrow' dMute balance for a single block to increase their amplifier APY

Lines of code Vulnerability details The amplifier's APY is calculated based on the user's dMute balance delegation balance to be more accurate - the more dMute the user holds the higher APY they get. However, the contract only checks the user's dMute balance at staking, the user doesn't have to...

expected outgoing rewards for non-jackpot tiers are not normalized

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When calculating new profit, the calculation for non-jackpot rewards are not normalized and will be largely overestimated, due to the additional percentage scaling. This will lead to the excess pot for participants being much lower and hence failing to...

GHSA-6JQJ-F58P-MRW3 Denial of Service in TenderMint

Description Denial of Service Tendermint 0.33.0 and above allow block proposers to include signatures for the wrong block. This may happen naturally if you start a network, have it run for some time and restart it without changing the chainID. It is a misconfiguration to reuse chainIDs. Correct...

Apport 2.x (Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 16.04) - Local Code Execution

Apport 2.x Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 16.04 - Local Code Execution Both of these issues were reported to the Apport maintainers and a fix was released on 2016-12-14. The CrashDB code injection issue can be tracked with CVE-2016-9949 and the path traversal bug with CVE-2016-9950. An additional problem...

Research Project Pays People to Infect their Machines

It’s been well documented that people will give up their computer passwords for a piece of chocolate. But what would they be willing to give up for a dollar—or even a penny? Plenty as it turns out. Incentivized by a minimal amount of cash, computer users who took part in a study conducted by...