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Assistant VP & CISO, Baylor University
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Jon Allen is the assistant vice president and Chief Information Security Officer at Baylor University where he has built the information security group from a one-person shop to an integrated organization. Jon has more than ten years of experience in information and network security and is a member of the Educause Effective Practices committee, and the SANS EDU advisory council. He has presented at RSA, Educause, Treasury Institute PCI workshop, SEAT and IANS on topics ranging from PCI compliance to InfoSec in the age of Cloud and Agile IT.
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7 Old IT Things Every New InfoSec Pro Should Know
Joan Goodchild, Staff Editor,  4/20/2021
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Cloud-Native Businesses Struggle With Security
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  5/6/2021
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Defending Against Web Scraping Attacks
Rob Simon, Principal Security Consultant at TrustedSec,  5/7/2021
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CVE-2021-29510
PUBLISHED: 2021-05-13
Pydantic is a data validation and settings management using Python type hinting. In affected versions passing either `'infinity'`, `'inf'` or `float('inf')` (or their negatives) to `datetime` or `date` fields causes validation to run forever with 100% CPU usage (on one CPU). Pydantic has been patche...
CVE-2021-23906
PUBLISHED: 2021-05-13
An issue was discovered in the Headunit NTG6 in the MBUX Infotainment System on Mercedes-Benz vehicles through 2021. A Message Length is not checked in the HiQnet Protocol, leading to remote code execution.
CVE-2021-23907
PUBLISHED: 2021-05-13
An issue was discovered in the Headunit NTG6 in the MBUX Infotainment System on Mercedes-Benz vehicles through 2021. The count in MultiSvGet, GetAttributes, and MultiSvSet is not checked in the HiQnet Protocol, leading to remote code execution.
CVE-2021-23908
PUBLISHED: 2021-05-13
An issue was discovered in the Headunit NTG6 in the MBUX Infotainment System on Mercedes-Benz vehicles through 2021. A type confusion issue affects MultiSvSetAttributes in the HiQnet Protocol, leading to remote code execution.
CVE-2021-23909
PUBLISHED: 2021-05-13
An issue was discovered in HERMES 2.1 in the MBUX Infotainment System on Mercedes-Benz vehicles through 2021. The SH2 MCU allows remote code execution.