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Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2024-08-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Lily Hay Newman

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A WIRED article covering Patrick Wardle’s Black Hat presentation arguing that system crash reports are an underutilized source for finding software bugs and potential vulnerabilities; Wardle illustrates the approach with examples (including YARA, macOS, and an iOS emoji crash) and references the CrowdStrike update that caused Windows BSODs as a prompt for his analysis.

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