At Parity we’re always looking for ways to improve our security. As phishing exploits continue increasing in sophistication, we have been thinking about how to ensure the trustability of our critical security
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As introduced in a previous post, we have developed a fourteen-point checklist for secure smart contract development. We are happy to provide this checklist as a resource to help the greater smart contract
Continue reading »New Parity Ethereum update fixes several vulnerabilities
February 13, 2019 in Parity Ethereum, Releases, Security
Update 15/2/2019: It has come to our attention that the scope of the fixed Parity Ethereum vulnerability is wider than we originally thought, and it could be exploited from a regular
Continue reading »Security Alert: Update Parity Ethereum nodes ASAP; node attack vector discovered
February 03, 2019 in Security, Parity Ethereum
On February 3rd, we received several reports that an attacker can send a specially-crafted RPC request to a public Parity Ethereum node (any version pre 2.2.9-stable and pre 2.3.2-beta)
Continue reading »Parity Signer v2.0 Beta: New features and improved security
October 11, 2018 in Releases, Parity Signer, Security
Somebody recently asked us, "Wouldn't it be cool if there was an app that could turn an old phone into a hardware wallet?"Already available on the iOS App Store and Google Play
Continue reading »Parity completes Trail of Bits’ security review
August 31, 2018 in Security, Parity Ethereum, Parity Substrate, Rust, Parity Signer
As announced earlier this year, Parity Technologies enlisted Trail of Bits, a top-tier security auditing firm specialising in smart contract security, Rust, and Solidity, to review our codebase. The scope of the audit
Continue reading »Why we believe in Wasm as the base layer of decentralised application development
June 20, 2018 in Security, Rust, Wasm
Recently there’s been a lot of discussion around using Wasm for blockchain development. Here's what the buzz is about: The issues with current tech Ethereum pioneered the field of decentralised application platforms
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Summary: A consensus issue on the public test network Ropsten has revealed a consensus vulnerability that can be triggered by a malformed transaction. Severity: Critical Product affected: Parity Ethereum client Affected versions: stable
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A potential consensus issue with Parity Ethereum has been identified. Severity: Critical Product affected: Parity Ethereum client Affected versions: stable track up to 1.10.5-stable beta track: up to 1.11.2-beta
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We founded Parity Technologies with the aspiration to write the best and safest software we can. We’ve learned a lot from our past mistakes. The wallet bugs, in particular, lead us to
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