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Veteran technology journalist of more than 20 years. Former research engineer. Written for more than two dozen publications, including CNET News.com, Dark Reading, MIT's Technology Review, Popular Science, and Wired News. Five awards for journalism, including Best Deadline Journalism (Online) in 2003 for coverage of the Blaster worm. Crunches numbers on various trends using Python and R. Recent reports include analyses of the shortage in cybersecurity workers and annual vulnerability trends.
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CVE-2019-19393
PUBLISHED: 2020-10-01
The Web application on Rittal CMC PU III 7030.000 V3.00 V3.11.00_2 to V3.15.70_4 devices fails to sanitize user input on the system configurations page. This allows an attacker to backdoor the device with HTML and browser-interpreted content (such as JavaScript or other client-side scripts) as the c...
CVE-2020-16844
PUBLISHED: 2020-10-01
In Istio 1.5.0 though 1.5.8 and Istio 1.6.0 through 1.6.7, when users specify an AuthorizationPolicy resource with DENY actions using wildcard suffixes (e.g. *-some-suffix) for source principals or namespace fields, callers will never be denied access, bypassing the intended policy.
CVE-2020-24620
PUBLISHED: 2020-10-01
Unisys Stealth(core) before 4.0.132 stores Passwords in a Recoverable Format.
CVE-2020-25017
PUBLISHED: 2020-10-01
Envoy through 1.15.0 only considers the first value when multiple header values are present for some HTTP headers. Envoy’s setCopy() header map API does not replace all existing occurences of a non-inline header.
CVE-2020-25018
PUBLISHED: 2020-10-01
Envoy master between 2d69e30 and 3b5acb2 may fail to parse request URL that requires host canonicalization.