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CTO, Cybersecurity & Special Missions, Raytheon Intelligence, Information & Services
Member Since: 7/22/2014
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Michael K. Daly is CTO, Cybersecurity and Special Missions of Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services provides cyber security products and services and offers a full range of training, space, logistics, and engineering solutions for government and civilian customers. Daly has worked for more than 27 years in security and information systems in both the private sector and the federal government with responsibilities including software engineering for law enforcement, and management of enterprise applications and distributed computing. He holds a world record for highest altitude luge run and is credited with the first climb of a mountain in the Wrangell-St. Elias Range of Alaska. He earned his Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Boston University and is a certified information systems security professional and a Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist.
Articles by Michael K. Daly
6 Ways Greed Has a Negative Effect on Cybersecurity
Joshua Goldfarb, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, IDRRA ,  6/11/2018
Weaponizing IPv6 to Bypass IPv4 Security
John Anderson, Principal Security Consultant, Trustwave Spiderlabs,  6/12/2018
'Shift Left' & the Connected Car
Rohit Sethi, COO of Security Compass,  6/12/2018
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CVE-2018-12026
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-17
During the spawning of a malicious Passenger-managed application, SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows such applications to replace key files or directories in the spawning communication directory with symlinks. This then could result in arbitrary reads and writes, which in tur...
CVE-2018-12027
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-17
An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a Passenger-spawned application process that reports that it listens on a certain Unix domain socket, if any of the parent directories of said ...
CVE-2018-12028
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-17
An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows a Passenger-managed malicious application, upon spawning a child process, to report an arbitrary different PID back to Passenger's process manager. If the malicious application then generates an e...
CVE-2018-12029
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-17
A race condition in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger 3.x through 5.x before 5.3.2 allows local escalation of privileges when a non-standard passenger_instance_registry_dir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured. Replacing a file with a symlink after the file was created, but befor...
CVE-2018-12071
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-17
A Session Fixation issue exists in CodeIgniter before 3.1.9 because session.use_strict_mode in the Session Library was mishandled.