Security Alert – cpp-ethereum keeps accounts unlocked
Affected configurations: cpp-ethereum (eth, AlethZero, …) version 1.2.0 up to 1.2.5 (fixed in 1.2.6) Note: Neither “geth” nor “Mist” nor the “Ethereum Wallet” (unless explicitly used together with cpp-ethereum) are…
Read More »Go Ethereum’s JIT-EVM
The Ethereum Virtual machine is kind of different than most other Virtual Machines out there. In my previous post I already explained how it’s used and described some of its characteristics. The…
Read More »CRITICAL UPDATE Re: DAO Vulnerability
An attack has been found and exploited in the DAO, and the attacker is currently in the process of draining the ether contained in the DAO into a child DAO….
Read More »Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community’s help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the DAO as…
Read More »DAO Wars: Your voice on the soft-fork dilemma
The last week was quite hectic for all of us in the Ethereum ecosystem. The DAO has shown us that it takes much more effort to write smart contracts than…
Read More »Security Alert – Smart Contract Wallets created in frontier are vulnerable to phishing attacks
Affected configurations: All smart contract wallets created using Ethereum Wallet Frontier, version 0.4.0 (Beta 7) or earlier. Wallets created with Ethereum Wallet 0.5.0 and all later versions released after March…
Read More »Ethereum Foundation Report
Today, we’ve published the EF report, which we hope helps the community understand what the Ethereum Foundation is, our core principles, and our vision of Ethereum as an infinite garden….
Read More »Hard Fork Completed
We would like to congratulate the Ethereum community on a successfully completed hard fork. Block 1920000 contained the execution of an irregular state change which transferred ~12 million ETH from…
Read More »Announcement of imminent hard fork for EIP150 gas cost changes
During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have been very crafty in locating vulnerabilities in the client implementations…
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