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Don't let TEEs break your MPC

Threshold signature schemes, a form of multi-party computation (MPC) that lets a set of parties sign together without any one of them holding the key, are increasingly deployed ins...

Sep 25, 2026 UTC
cloudvia Trail of Bits Blog

SAML: A fractal of bad design

Born out of academia and raised in corporate IT departments, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication protocol continues to be a staple in these organizations....

Sep 21, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

Auditing in the age of (good enough) AI

Security firms have published numerous blog posts describing how they pointed their agent harness at a codebase and found dozens of bugs (we’re one of them). However, these posts t...

Sep 18, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

1Password's AI patching benchmark is misleading

1Password’s FLAWED report, published on August 6, 2026, gives defenders a misleading picture of AI patching. Its headline says models produced clean fixes only 26% of the time. Tha...

Sep 15, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

As part of Patch the Planet, we received preview access to GPT 5.6-Cyber with a simple task: evaluate its cyber capabilities. Recent events inspired me to give it a challenge to wo...

Aug 26, 2026 UTC
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State divergence enables unauthorized access

We found and reported a bug in Provenance Blockchain, a public proof-of-stake chain built on Cosmos SDK, that lets any user grant themselves admin control over marker accounts with...

Aug 25, 2026 UTC
cloudvia Trail of Bits Blog

A few notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: KMS integration

Nitro Enclaves and Key Management Service (KMS) feel like a natural fit: since the KMS can verify attestation documents generated by the enclaves, developers can offload key manage...

Aug 5, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

Building secure Uniswap v4 hooks

Uniswap v4 hooks let developers add custom behavior to pools, including dynamic fees, custom accounting, and external integrations. This flexibility moves some security responsibil...

Jul 30, 2026 UTC
vulnerabilityvia Trail of Bits Blog

How we use /goal to find bugs in Patch the Planet

Codex’s /goal feature amplifies bug hunting, but getting good results requires the right prompt, the right scope, and the right number of outcomes per run. For Patch the Planet, ou...

Jul 28, 2026 UTC
threat-intelvia Trail of Bits Blog

Rust-proof your code with our new Testing Handbook chapter

We’ve added a new chapter to our Testing Handbook: a comprehensive guide to security testing Rust programs. This chapter covers the tools and techniques we use at Trail of Bits to...

Jul 13, 2026 UTC