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For 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
by CognitiveLens 8y ago
For 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.