About the security content of Security Update 2018-001

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208742

by mafro • 8 years ago

59 16 8 years ago

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For anyone unfamiliar with Project Zero, it's a team at Google dedicated to finding security vulnerabilities across the internet (and in software in general, it seems)

https://security.googleblog.com/2014/07/announcing-project-z...

ehsankia3• 8 years ago

Some high profile exploits they either discovered or played a big role in:

- SHAttered(?)

- Row hammer

- Cloudbleed

- Lastpass exploit

- Meltdown & Spectre

0xFFFF00002• 8 years ago

Would 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.

y4mi• 8 years ago

Why 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. [...]

threeseed• 8 years ago

What is with this title ? It's a result of two CVEs.

awat• 8 years ago

In the support article Apple is crediting one of the CVEs “CVE-2018-4206: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero”

PakG1• 8 years ago

Title could still be better than it is, I think. Original title is much better. Things like attribution can be done fine in the comments if that's not in the title.

Furthermore, Project Zero was involved in only one of the CVEs anyway then. Why not put the other credit in the title too? CVE-2018-4187: Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester) of Tencent Security Platform Department, Roman Mueller (@faker_)

keyle• 8 years ago

It just implies that it's a good news story, where Google helped Apple make their software better and safer for everyone.

lawguy• 8 years ago

Here are the details on Project Zero's tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...

epistasis• 8 years ago

Google's PR machine strikes again, robbing Tencent of their due.

0xFFFF00002• 8 years ago

Exactly what I thought. Project Zero allows Google to segway away from their Android ecosystem mess they left beyind and (even relatively benign findings at times - there was a Defense in Depth issue in Windows recently I remember that got an article) get a lot of media attention, and other researches are ignored. Shows that Google's PR works really well. I first noticed that during Meltdown/Spectre where most of the heavy lifting was done by university students somewhere in Europe, but they nowhere got as much attention as Google. Sad.

kerng• 8 years ago

What about Tencent? Very misleading title.

mafro• 8 years ago

Guys seriously.. Nobody is going to read a link titled "About the security content of Security Update 2018-001".

People need some kind of pointer about _why_ they might want to read a security update statement.

Granted the original title should have included Tencent's name too.

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