SelfBurn lpToken may create bad debt

Handle jonah1005 Vulnerability details Impact Users can create bad debt by burning their lpToken. Bad debt of the system would increase the utilization rate and hence increase the interest rate of the counterpart token. It would be a reasonable action to burn lp if the user is no longer profitabl...

YieldSourcePrizePool_canAwardExternal does not work

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The idea of YieldSourcePrizePoolcanAwardExternal seems to be to disallow awarding the interest-bearing token of the yield source, like aTokens, cTokens, yTokens. "@dev Different yield sources will hold the deposits as another kind of token: such a Compound's...

Users can avoid paying borrowing interest after the fyToken matures

Handle shw Vulnerability details Impact According to the protocol design, users have to pay borrowing interest when repaying the debt with underlying tokens after maturity. However, a user can give his vault to Witch and then buy all his collateral using underlying tokens to avoid paying the...

Incompatability with deflationary / fee-on-transfer tokens

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details The DInterest.deposit function takes a depositAmount parameter but this parameter is not the actual transferred amount for fee-on-transfer / deflationary or other rebasing tokens. Impact The actual deposited amount might be lower than the...

Longer maturity leads to lower returns

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details The LinearDecayInterestModel computes the interestAmount on a deposit as depositAmount moneyMarketInterestRatePerSecond IRMultiplier depositPeriodInSeconds where the IRMultiplier is a function of the depositPeriodInSeconds computed in:...

Military Cryptanalytics, Part III

The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics, Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977. Parts I and II, by Lambros D. Callimahos and William F. Friedman, were released decades ago -- I believe repeatedly, in increasingly unredacted form -- and...

Election Security: Beyond Mail-In Voting

As a highly publicized event, every four years the U.S presidential election comes with inevitable security risks — and interest from high-level hackers and sophisticated cybercriminals looking to sway its results. The upcoming election ups the stakes — it has captured the attention of everyone...

Pioneer Kitten APT Sells Corporate Network Access

An APT group known as Pioneer Kitten, linked to Iran, has been spotted selling corporate-network credentials on hacker forums. The credentials would let other cybercriminal groups and APTs perform cyberespionage and other nefarious cyber-activity. Pioneer Kitten is a hacker group that specializes...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm being interviewed on "Hacking in the Public Interest" as part of the Black Hat Webcast Series, on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT. The list is maintained on this page...

Social Engineering Based on Stimulus Bill and COVID-19 Financial Compensation Schemes Expected to Grow in Coming Weeks

Given the community interest and media coverage surrounding the economic stimulus bill currently being considered by the United States House of Representatives, we anticipate attackers will increasingly leverage lures tailored to the new stimulus bill and related recovery efforts such as stimulus...

Beers with Talos Ep. #74: Impacting civil society

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 74 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded March 2, 2020 We open up the show with a sugary sweet poem before talking about RSA and our annual trip through...

Katie Moussouris: The Bug Bounty Conflict of Interest

Since the launch of the Hack the Pentagon program in 2016, bug bounty programs continue to increase in popularity – however, as more programs are created, some companies are forgetting the real reason behind bug bounties. Instead of aiming to make their systems more secure, companies are viewing...

Fintech security: the challenges and fails of a new era

"I have no idea how this app from my bank works, and I don't trust what I don't understand." Josh is not an old curmudgeon or luddite. He's 42 with a decent understanding of technology. Nevertheless, the changes in fintech have come too fast for him. It's not that he doesn't trust his bank. He...

Becoming a Tech Policy Activist

Carolyn McCarthy gave an excellent TEDx talk about becoming a tech policy activist. It's a powerful call for public-interest technologists...

Technology and Policymakers

Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled The Two Cultures. He called them sciences and humanities, and pointed to the split as a major hindrance to solving the world's...

Why Technologists Need to Get Involved in Public Policy

Last month, I gave a 15-minute talk in London titled: "Why technologists need to get involved in public policy." In it, I try to make the case for public-interest technologists. I also maintain a public-interest tech resources page, which has pretty much everything I can find in this space. If I'...

Answering IoT Security Questions for CISOs

Given the permeating nature of IoT and Industrial IoT devices in our daily lives, from smart homes to smart cities, one cannot escape the growing cybersecurity risks associated with these devices. It might leave CISOs with a lot of questions about how this newer, growing attack vector could impac...

Debian DSA-4535-1 : e2fsprogs - security update

Lilith of Cisco Talos discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the quota code used by e2fsck from the ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities. Running e2fsck on a malformed file system can result in the execution of arbitrary code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

I'm Looking to Hire a Strategist to Help Figure Out Public-Interest Tech

I am in search of a strategic thought partner: a person who can work closely with me over the next 9 to 12 months in assessing what's needed to advance the practice, integration, and adoption of public-interest technology. All of the details are in the RFP. The selected strategist will work close...

BlockDev Sp. Z o.o: Steal collateral during `end` process, by earning DSR interest after `flow`.

Summary: The end contract in MCD controls the process of shutting down the MCD contracts and allowing for users to redeem their DAI for collateral -- presumably to migrate to a new implementation of DAI. The process, however, doesn't prevent the continued functioniong of DAI savings accounts pot...