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Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine
One hacker solved the Crowdstrike outage mystery with simple crash reports, illustrating the wealth of detail about potential bugs and vulnerabilities those key documents hold.
When a bad software update from the security firm Crowdstrike inadvertently caused digital chaos around the world last month, the first signs were Windows computers showing the Blue Screen of Death. Rushing to understand the crisis, longtime Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle knew that there was one place he could look to get the facts: Crash reports from computers impacted by the bug. In his Black Hat talk, Wardle presented multiple vulnerabilities he discovered simply by examining crash reports on his own devices—including bugs in the analysis tool YARA and in the current version of Apple's macOS operating system.
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