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Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope

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The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd

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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA

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Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987)

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Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit

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A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data

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Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples

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Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz

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Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read

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*bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty: leaking private Yahoo Mail images

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Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows

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Proving Box.com fixed ASLR via ImageMagick uninitialized zlib stream buffer

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Proving missing ASLR on dropbox.com and box.com over the web for a $343 bounty

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Ode to the use-after-free: one vulnerable function, a thousand possibilities

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Black box discovery of memory corruption RCE on box.com

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Redux: compromising Linux using SNES Ricoh 5A22 processor opcodes?

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Advancing exploitation: a scriptless 0day exploit against Linux desktops

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Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES

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One Perfect Bug: Exploiting Type Confusion in Flash

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com·11 pts·scarybeast·
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Significant Flash exploit mitigations are live in v18.0.0.209

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com·90 pts·scarybeast·
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From inter to intra: gaining reliability

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com·8 pts·scarybeast·
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What is a “good” memory corruption vulnerability?

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