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 05: Why Are Blue Team Hackers More L33T?
EP 04: Can A Machine Think Like A Hacker?
EP 03: Inside DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
EP 02: Inside DEF CON’s Champion CTF Team PPP
EP 01: Why Is West Point Training Hackers?
EP 00: The Hacker Mind (Promo)
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