PriceOracle Does Not Filter Price Feed Outliers

Handle leastwood Vulnerability details Impact If for whatever reason the Chainlink oracle returns a malformed price due to oracle manipulation or a malfunctioned price, the result will be passed onto users, causing unintended consequences as a result. In the same time it's possible to construct...

The Shortfalls of Mean Time Metrics in Cybersecurity

Security teams at mid-sized organizations are constantly faced with the question of "what does success look like?". At ActZero, their continued data-driven approach to cybersecurity invites them to grapple daily with measuring, evaluating, and validating the work they do on behalf of their...

Errors, Outliers Obscure Cybercrime Losses

Estimates of the extent of cyber crime are hopelessly overblown, two computer security researchers argue in an editorial from Sunday’s New York Times. Arguing counter to the prevailing opinion that online crime is a modern day Yukon Gold Rush for entrepreneurial hackers, the two Microsoft...

Bruce Schneier on Liars and Outliers

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier about his new book, Liars and Outliers, the role of trust in society and security, the ways in which technology helps promote trust and how various groups and actors defect the norm and take advantage of that trust. Podcast audio...