Security Surveys: Read With Caution
6/22/2015I’m skeptical of industry surveys that tell security practitioners what they already know. Don’t state the obvious. Tell us the way forward.
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Information Security Blogger News & Commentary Posts: 2Writer. Father. Husband. Blogger. History buff. Heavy Metal fanatic. Rebellious Catholic. Frequent traveler. In his day job, Brenner writes about threats to Internet security as seen from his vantage point as Senior Security Tech Writer at Akamai Technologies research center. He also blogs about the wider security industry at Liquidmatrix.org and writes about mental health issues at theocddiaries.com. Opinions are his own.
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FUD Watch: The Marketing Of Security Vulnerabilities
5/28/2015I’m all for raising awareness, but making designer vulnerabilities, catchy logos and content part of the disclosure process is a step in the wrong direction.
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From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2019-8903
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From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2019-8903
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
index.js in Total.js Platform before 3.2.3 allows path traversal.
CVE-2019-6453PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
mIRC before 7.55 allows remote command execution by using argument injection through custom URI protocol handlers. The attacker can specify an irc:// URI that loads an arbitrary .ini file from a UNC share pathname. Exploitation depends on browser-specific URI handling (Chrome is not exploitable).
CVE-2019-8372PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
The LHA.sys driver before 1.1.1811.2101 in LG Device Manager exposes functionality that allows low-privileged users to read and write arbitrary physical memory via specially crafted IOCTL requests and elevate system privileges. This occurs because the device object has an associated symbolic link an...
CVE-2019-8902PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
An issue was discovered in idreamsoft iCMS through 7.0.14. A CSRF vulnerability can delete users' articles via the public/api.php?app=user URI.
CVE-2019-8423PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
ZoneMinder through 1.32.3 has SQL Injection via the skins/classic/views/events.php filter[Query][terms][0][cnj] parameter.
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