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Ask HN: Where I can find the latest security exploits?
What are the best security sites that lists systems security exploits?
Thanks?
- cperciva 17y agoWrong sort of hacker. We build stuff people want, not break it.
- sophacles 17y agoI was unable to understand "secure coding practices" (beyond buffer overflows and sql escaping anyway) until I started examining real exploits to understand them. Why do you assume that the OP wants only to break things?
- cperciva 17y agoWhy do you assume that the OP wants only to break things? Because he's new here, and when new people wander in here looking for security vulnerabilities, it's usually because they've misunderstood what the site is about. Also, he specifically asked for the latest security exploits -- if your goal is to learn rather than attack, it doesn't matter if a vulnerability has been fixed already. (In fact, it's better if it has, since that way you can see both how the attack works and how to prevent it.)
- Mafana0 17y agoI don't consider myself "new" here, I've been reading the discussions here for months, and I do understand what the site is all about. I do understand that "HN" isn't about breaking systems, which I'm not trying to do. Have asked about the "latest" security exploits, I'm not trying to "attack", I just want to know "modern" security exploits I can try on my own system. I'll appreciate it if you tell me about new security exploits along with their fixes. Thanks and sorry again for the inconvenience.
- statictype 17y agoDoes HN get a lot of these types of posts? I'm actually surprised that I haven't seen more of it, but maybe they're just getting flagged\killed early.
- cperciva 17y agoI think I've seen a dozen or more over the past couple of years. Enough that it's a persistant irritant, but not so much to make it a major problem.
- Mafana0 17y agoI'm not looking for info to break systems, I'm just trying to learn the potential exploits to protect my own software, by learning the best security practices. Sorry if the question isn't very convenient here...
- hatchack 17y agoIf you're really interested in security and not just looking for 1337 5ki11z, start here: http://www.google.com http://www.google.com http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1 http://cve.mitre.org/ http://cve.mitre.org/
- ig1 17y agoBugtraq and vuln-dev for the more whitehat side, irc and zeroday forums (often invite only) for the blackhat side.