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Director of Cloud, ExtraHop
Member Since: 6/13/2017
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Eric Thomas serves as director of cloud for IT analytics company ExtraHop. Prior to taking this role, Eric led the ExtraHop professional services team, and draws on over 20 years of experience in IT operations.  Before joining ExtraHop, Eric performed a variety of operational roles, most recently as director of advanced engineering for Thomson Reuters, where he led a team of performance and availability specialists, supporting over 200 applications representing $2 billion in annual revenue. His prior experience includes enterprise IT management, SaaS production operations, and next-generation technology advocacy.
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Higher Education: 15 Books to Help Cybersecurity Pros Be Better
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
'PowerSnitch' Hacks Androids via Power Banks
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  12/8/2018
Worst Password Blunders of 2018 Hit Organizations East and West
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
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CVE-2018-1848
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-14
IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0.0.0 and 18.0.0.1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force...
CVE-2018-1977
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-14
IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 11.1 (includes DB2 Connect Server) contains a denial of service vulnerability. A remote, authenticated DB2 user could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a specially-crafted SELECT statement with TRUNCATE function. IBM X-Force ID: 154032.
CVE-2018-18006
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-14
Hardcoded credentials in the Ricoh myPrint application 2.9.2.4 for Windows and 2.2.7 for Android give access to any externally disclosed myPrint WSDL API, as demonstrated by discovering API secrets of related Google cloud printers, encrypted passwords of mail servers, and names of printed files.
CVE-2018-18984
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-14
Medtronic CareLink 2090 Programmer CareLink 9790 Programmer 29901 Encore Programmer, all versions, The affected products do not encrypt or do not sufficiently encrypt the following sensitive information while at rest PII and PHI.
CVE-2018-19003
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-14
GE Mark VIe, EX2100e, EX2100e_Reg, and LS2100e Versions 03.03.28C to 05.02.04C, EX2100e All versions prior to v04.09.00C, EX2100e_Reg All versions prior to v04.09.00C, and LS2100e All versions prior to v04.09.00C The affected versions of the application have a path traversal vulnerability that fails...