How do you stop a half billion dollars in cryptocurrency from being stolen? You perform software testing and responsibly disclose it first, of course.
Yannis Smaragdakis, a researcher with Dedaub, found a major vulnerability in Ethereum smart contracts, arguably within the billion-dollar range, that would have made it one of the largest hacks ever—given that it was a theoretically unbounded threat -- had it not been mostly mitigated by the time it went public. In this episode he steps us though how he discovered the Phantom Function and other vulnerabilities within Ethereum.
EP 25: Hacking Communities
EP 24: Hacking Biology
EP 23: Hacking APIs
EP 22: Hacking Social Media
EP 21: Hacking Ransomware
EP 20: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations
EP 19: Hacking IoT
EP 18: Hacking Diversity
EP 17: Shellshock
EP 16: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking
EP 15: So You Want To Be A Pentester
EP 14: The Right To Repair
EP 13: Shall We Play A Game?
EP 12: Hacking Healthcare
EP 11: Hacking OpenWRT
EP 10: Hunting The Next Heartbleed
EP 09: Bug Bounty Hunters
EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems
EP 07: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox
EP 06: Hacking With Light And Sound
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