Hacker News Reader

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...

View on HN

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

- SHAttered(?)

- Row hammer

- Cloudbleed

- Lastpass exploit

- Meltdown & Spectre

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.

To be clear, I state that "they played a role in", implying that there were other people too.

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. [...]

I know it was Google, but I wasn't sure if Google Research was the same as Google Project Zero or a different team.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com