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Some high profile exploits they either discovered or played a big role in: - SHAttered(?) - Row hammer - Cloudbleed - Lastpass exploit - Meltdown & Spectre
by ehsankia 9y ago
Some high profile exploits they either discovered or played a big role in:
- SHAttered(?)
- Row hammer
- Cloudbleed
- Lastpass exploit
- Meltdown & Spectre
- 0xFFFF0000 9y 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 9y agoTo be clear, I state that "they played a role in", implying that there were other people too.
- y4mi 9y 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 9y agoI know it was Google, but I wasn't sure if Google Research was the same as Google Project Zero or a different team.