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Blockchain security – Six common mistakes found in Substrate chains

There is relatively little guidance on security mistakes to expect when working on Blockchain projects. This post lists six mistakes we regularly find when auditing Substrate-based chains along with hands-on advice on how to mitigate the issues.

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Blockchain security – Best practices for your next review

Over the past years and in over a dozen audits we gained extensive experience in auditing Substrate-based Blockchain technologies. In this blog post we share our methodology that helped to identify many critical vulnerabilities.

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Balancing long-term technology evolution with short-term side-effects - Vulnerability disclosure best practices

Responsible disclosure is the best practice to handle and fix unknown vulnerabilities. This blog includes real-world experience and advice from over a decade of SRLabs disclosing vulnerabilities responsibly.

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Honeypot research shows variety of DDoS amplification methods

UDP protocol design makes it easy to hide the real origin of requests, making it the perfect candidate for DDoS amplification and leaving prevention as the only protection against these threats

Achieving Telerik Remote Code Execution 100 Times Faster

A cryptographic vulnerability in the development software Telerik UI from 2017 turned out to be impractical to exploit until now. This blogpost details the optimization techniques deployed, which can be applied to similar issues in other software.

Incorrectly patched ZyXEL vulnerability becomes zero-day again

We dug deeper into the vulnerability and patch for CVE-2020-9054, a pre-auth command injection in ZyXEL NAS devices. We found that the patched vulnerability was still exploit-able due to incomplete patching.

A decade of hacking – meet the people behind SRLabs

It almost seems like eons ago when we were just some geeks having fun solving tech puzzles. We were discovering flaws in systems that we used every day. From this research, we soon realized it would be a bigger benefit for everybody ...