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    HP Security Research Blog

    h30499.www3.hp.com · Company blog · on HN since 2012

    HP's security research team publishes vulnerability analyses, exploit write-ups, and Pwn2Own results covering Windows, OpenSSL, Flash, and POS systems.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for technical vulnerability write-ups, the Pwn2Own 2015 results, and the POS hacking post; commenters also grumble about its unwieldy URLs.

    Stats for nerds
    47HN people shared it
    53linked in comments
    456story points
    Mar 2015last shared
    2012people per year2015

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Pwn2Own owned all major browsers
      1 person · 111 points · first shared 2013 · 63 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome on Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4
      1 person · 95 points · first shared 2013 · 32 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Full details on CVE-2015-0096 and the failed MS10-046 Stuxnet fix
      4 people · 92 points · first shared 2015 · 16 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit
      3 people · 69 points · first shared 2014 · 16 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Patch analysis of latest Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761)
      1 person · 11 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      The mechanism behind Internet Explorer CVE-2014-1776
      1 person · 7 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Technical Analysis of the SandWorm Vulnerability (CVE-2014-4114)
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    8. 8
      How I learned to hack my TV (and started worrying about the future)
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Internet of Things Is the Frankenbeast of Information Security
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      JavaScript Inheritance Revisited
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • Moral_Mar 2014

      Not all of them. One was a use after free, which isn't related to buffer overflows. Two other ones are not clear what they were caused by:

      By Mariusz Mlynski:

      Against Mozilla Firefox, two vulnerabilities, one allowing privilege escalation within the browser and one bypassing browser security measures.

      http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-results-for-Thursday-Day-Two/ba-p/6412622#.UyYOW9tx0xC

      http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-results-for-Wednesday-Day-One/ba-p/6410984#.UyYOXttx0xC

    • mnickyJun 2014

      It seems that both Heartbleed and this MITM vulnerability were introduced by Robin Seggelmann [1], which will surely drive a lot of speculations...

      [1] http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/ZDI-14-173-CVE-2014-0195-OpenSSL-DTLS-Fragment-Out-of-Bounds/ba-p/6501002#.U5Cjpnmx3UY

    • Wingman4l7Jul 2014

      This comment provides a lot of insight into the situation from the perspective of someone who claims to "install and provide tech support" for the Aloha POS system: http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Hacking-POS-Terminal-for-Fun-and-Non-profit/bc-p/6541118#M349

    • mccr8Mar 2015

      All were running on Windows, except Safari which was running on OSX. You can see the details at this overly long URL from the contest organizers:

      http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2015-Exploitation-at-its-Finest/ba-p/6708265#.VQyBsbfYDOQ

    • nradovJan 2014

      For those using the Java stack we have found HP's Fortify static analysis tool helpful in automatically detecting XXE vulnerabilities.

      http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Q2-2013-HP-Fortify-Software-Security-Content-Update/ba-p/6119297

    • mariuzOct 2012

      Yes was a Microsoft Hand , they killend it and went to more complex indexed db that no one loves

      http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Following-the-Wh1t3-Rabbit-Down/W3C-Buries-quot-Web-SQL-Database-Standard-quot/ba-p/2407945#.UHBiwlU-on8

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