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Fellow Security Architect, Gigamon
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Simon Gibson is a Fellow Security Architect at Gigamon. He provides direction and roadmaps for the product that secures applications that secure the Internet.

Simon has been working on Internet infrastructure for nearly 20 years from small ISP's, to developing streaming media technology at AOL/Time Warner and working on hardware accelerated appliances with Extreme Networks for WinAmp/Shoutcast. Simon was a systems architect at Verisign

Prior to Gigamon, Simon led the Information Security Group at Bloomberg LP in New York and was their CISO from 2008 to 2013.
Articles by Simon Gibson
New Bluetooth Hack Affects Millions of Vehicles
Dark Reading Staff 11/16/2018
Understanding Evil Twin AP Attacks and How to Prevent Them
Ryan Orsi, Director of Product Management for Wi-Fi at WatchGuard Technologies,  11/14/2018
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CVE-2018-17948
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
An open redirect vulnerability exists in the Access Manager Identity Provider prior to 4.4 SP3.
CVE-2018-1779
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
IBM API Connect 2018.1 through 2018.3.7 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to not setting limits on JSON payload size. IBM X-Force ID: 148802.
CVE-2018-19367
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Portainer through 1.19.2 provides an API endpoint (/api/users/admin/check) to verify that the admin user is already created. This API endpoint will return 404 if admin was not created and 204 if it was already created. Attackers can set an admin password in the 404 case.
CVE-2018-19335
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Google Monorail before 2018-06-07 has a Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) vulnerability because CSV downloads are affected by CSRF, and calculations of download times (for requests with a crafted groupby value) can be used to obtain sensitive information about the content of bug reports.
CVE-2018-19334
PUBLISHED: 2018-11-20
Google Monorail before 2018-05-04 has a Cross-Site Search (XS-Search) vulnerability because CSV downloads are affected by CSRF, and calculations of download times (for requests with an unsupported axis) can be used to obtain sensitive information about the content of bug reports.