Database Security
Authentication
Privacy
Compliance
Identity & Access Management
Security Monitoring
Advanced Threats
Insider Threats
Vulnerability Management

Author

Simon Gibson
Twitter
RSS
E-Mail

Profile of Simon Gibson

Fellow Security Architect, Gigamon
News & Commentary Posts: 1

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
Election Websites, Back-End Systems Most at Risk of Cyberattack in Midterms
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  8/14/2018
Intel Reveals New Spectre-Like Vulnerability
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  8/15/2018
Australian Teen Hacked Apple Network
Dark Reading Staff 8/17/2018
Register for Dark Reading Newsletters
White Papers
Video
Cartoon
Current Issue
Flash Poll
Twitter Feed
Dark Reading - Bug Report
Bug Report
Enterprise Vulnerabilities
From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
CVE-2018-15572
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
The spectre_v2_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks.
CVE-2018-15573
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in Reprise License Manager (RLM) through 12.2BL2. Attackers can use the web interface to read and write data to any file on disk (as long as rlm.exe has access to it) via /goform/edit_lf_process with file content in the lfdata parameter and a pathname in the lf...
CVE-2018-15574
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the license editor in Reprise License Manager (RLM) through 12.2BL2. It is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the /goform/edit_lf_get_data lf parameter via GET or POST. NOTE: the vendor has stated "We do not consider this a vulnerability."
CVE-2018-15570
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
In waimai Super Cms 20150505, there is stored XSS via the /admin.php/Foodcat/editsave fcname parameter.
CVE-2018-15564
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-20
An issue was discovered in daveismyname simple-cms through 2014-03-11. There is a CSRF vulnerability that can delete any page via admin/?delpage=8.