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About the security content of Security Update 2018-001
- CognitiveLens 8y agoFor anyone unfamiliar with Project Zero, it's a team at Google dedicated to finding security vulnerabilities across the internet (and in software in general, it seems) https://security.googleblog.com/2014/07/announcing-project-zero.html https://security.googleblog.com/2014/07/announcing-project-z...
- ehsankia 8y agoSome high profile exploits they either discovered or played a big role in: - SHAttered(?) - Row hammer - Cloudbleed - Lastpass exploit - Meltdown & Spectre
- 0xFFFF0000 8y agoWould be good to also highlight the other finders of some of these issues, but this view shows that Google Project Zero is a well executed PR machine taking away the focus of other security researchers. The title of this thread is similarly misleading.
- ehsankia 8y agoTo be clear, I state that "they played a role in", implying that there were other people too.
- y4mi 8y agoWhy a question mark behind SHAttered? > This result is the product of a long term collaboration between the Cryptology Group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) - the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands - and the Google Research Security, Privacy and Anti-abuse Group. [...]
- ehsankia 8y agoI know it was Google, but I wasn't sure if Google Research was the same as Google Project Zero or a different team.
- threeseed 8y agoWhat is with this title ? It's a result of two CVEs.
- awat 8y agoIn the support article Apple is crediting one of the CVEs “CVE-2018-4206: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero”
- PakG1 8y agoTitle could still be better than it is, I think. Original title is much better. Things like attribution can be done fine in the comments if that's not in the title. Furthermore, Project Zero was involved in only one of the CVEs anyway then. Why not put the other credit in the title too? CVE-2018-4187: Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester) of Tencent Security Platform Department, Roman Mueller (@faker_)
- rurban 8y agoCorrect. And I would rather emphasise Tencent more. They did amazing security work in recent years, to me more impressive work than Google zero.
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- keyle 8y agoIt just implies that it's a good news story, where Google helped Apple make their software better and safer for everyone.
- lawguy 8y agoHere are the details on Project Zero's tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1529 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
- epistasis 8y agoGoogle's PR machine strikes again, robbing Tencent of their due.
- 0xFFFF0000 8y agoExactly what I thought. Project Zero allows Google to segway away from their Android ecosystem mess they left beyind and (even relatively benign findings at times - there was a Defense in Depth issue in Windows recently I remember that got an article) get a lot of media attention, and other researches are ignored. Shows that Google's PR works really well. I first noticed that during Meltdown/Spectre where most of the heavy lifting was done by university students somewhere in Europe, but they nowhere got as much attention as Google. Sad.
- kerng 8y agoWhat about Tencent? Very misleading title.
- mafro 8y agoGuys seriously.. Nobody is going to read a link titled "About the security content of Security Update 2018-001". People need some kind of pointer about _why_ they might want to read a security update statement. Granted the original title should have included Tencent's name too.