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ACROS Security Blog

Company blog · blog.acrossecurity.comsecurity

ACROS Security Blog is the company blog at blog.acrossecurity.com, writing about security. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Is Your Online Bank Vulnerable To Currency Rounding Attacks?”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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17mentions?
8HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link the ACROS Security Blog for security research, such as the risks of opening .txt files on Windows via COM servers and whether online bank APIs are vulnerable to a points-exchange exploit.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

ACROS Security Blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Is Your Online Bank Vulnerable To Currency Rounding Attacks?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. ecyrb · 2011-09-17
    details here: http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/05/anatomy-of-com-server-...

    Comment linking /2011/05/anatomy-of-com-server-based-binary.html

    on “Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows”
  2. dielel · 2012-01-04

    Submitted Google Chrome HTTPS Address Bar Spoofing as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  3. gyom · 2013-09-18Recommends
    If you can do it virtually through the bank's API, then you might have a better shot than by exchanging pennies manually. Here's a reference. No idea if some particular bank is vulnerable to it, but it's a fun read. http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2012/01/is-your-online-bank-vu...

    Comment linking /2012/01/is-your-online-bank-vulnerable-to.html

    on “The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million Air Miles”
  4. dielel · 2012-01-09

    Submitted Is Your Online Bank Vulnerable To Currency Rounding Attacks? as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. dielel · 2012-04-11

    Submitted Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) msiexec.exe Planting as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. dielel · 2011-10-21

    Submitted Google Chrome pkcs11.txt File Planting as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Garbage · 2011-09-16

    Submitted Microsoft's Binary Planting Clean-Up Mission as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. dielel · 2010-11-24

    Submitted The Unbearable Lightness Of Non-Fixing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. erikano · 2010-11-13

    Submitted Analysis Of The Microsoft Office 2010 Binary Planting Bugs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. dielel · 2016-01-21

    Submitted Bridging the “Security Update Gap” with 0patch as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. dielel · 2012-05-03

    Submitted Anatomy Of An Online Bank Robbery as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. dielel · 2012-02-17

    Submitted Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. dielel · 2012-02-13

    Submitted Should We Be Focusing On Vulnerabilities Or Exploits? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. jgeralnik · 2012-01-12

    Submitted Online Bank Vulnerability - Currency Rounding Attacks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. dielel · 2011-09-26

    Submitted More Misconceptions About Binary Planting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. novacane · 2011-07-11

    Submitted Binary Planting Goes "Any File Type" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. r11t · 2011-01-12

    Submitted How To Secure a Security Product as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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