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Kurt Barry

@kurt_m_barry

fire stealer, bio-hacker, smart contract securer

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calendar_today06-10-2019 05:18:07

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Dickson🦇🔊 (@dicksonwuml) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday, Spectral Finance suffered a sophisticated hack resulting in ~$250k lost. Attackers manipulated an unintended infinite approval in the code to drain funds. Here's how it happened. 1/8

Yesterday, Spectral Finance suffered a sophisticated hack resulting in ~$250k lost. 

Attackers manipulated an unintended infinite approval in the code to drain funds. Here's how it happened.

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Kurt Barry (@kurt_m_barry) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Eventually “Why didn’t you adopt Safe Harbor?” will carry the same weight as “Why didn’t you get an external audit?” when interrogating a project’s security posture.

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⚠️ Reminder that if you ever stored your private keys or seed phrases in LastPass prior to 2023, your funds might be at risk. We've seen 15+ cases of potential LastPass-related hacks TODAY Move your assets before hackers move them for you. For more information, keep reading🧵

Kurt Barry (@kurt_m_barry) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Had an out-of-date source for the quoted tweet, here's the actual current list (still gonna be reading EIPs, just not quite as many).

Had an out-of-date source for the quoted tweet, here's the actual current list (still gonna be reading EIPs, just not quite as many).
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If you're looking for examples of projects that are doing security correctly in terms of prioritization and process, add Napier to your list. (Source: it was one of the hardest codebases to find bugs in I've seen to-date.)

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I like to think of DeFi development as a genetic search algorithm to find the ideal mathematical primitives for a trustless financial system, under the constraints of the underlying substrate (usually EVM blockchains). Auditing Uni v4 felt like observing a new step in that

elyx0 (@elyx0) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s a lot of noise on the upcoming Pectra upgrade next month regarding batching/EOF, but besides that if you need to remember one thing (specially for your NFT launches) it’s that the beloved modifier **onlyEOA** is broken. Let’s explore 👇 (1/9)

There’s a lot of noise on the upcoming Pectra upgrade next month regarding batching/EOF, but besides that if you need to remember one thing (specially for your NFT launches) it’s that the beloved modifier **onlyEOA** is broken. Let’s explore 👇 (1/9)
Kurt Barry (@kurt_m_barry) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PSA: a well-known "Blockchain Security Engineer" (@0xNickLFranklin) has turned out to be a DPRK operator...I notice a few of my own followers/mutuals follow him. Don't feel bad, he tricked everyone, just don't trust anything he sends you (at a minimum).

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If you have smart contracts that control value, you should have a bug bounty. Great to see Coinbase setting an example here with a juicy Cantina bounty.