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Vice President & DevOps Advocate, Sonatype
Member Since: 2/26/2016
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Derek Weeks is passionate about applying proven supply chain management principles to improve efficiencies, reduce security risks, and sustain long-lasting competitive advantages. He is a distinguished international speaker and lectures regularly on modern software development practices, continuous delivery and DevOps, and application security.
A 20-year veteran of the software industry, Derek has advised leading businesses on IT performance improvement, practices covering continuous delivery, business process management, systems and network operations, service management, capacity planning and storage management.

Derek currently serves as vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype, where he leads the largest and most comprehensive annual analysis of software supply chain practices to date across more than 150,000 development organizations.
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Higher Education: 15 Books to Help Cybersecurity Pros Be Better
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
Bug Hunting Paves Path to Infosec Careers
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
'PowerSnitch' Hacks Androids via Power Banks
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  12/8/2018
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An issue was discovered in zzzphp cms 1.5.8. del_file in /admin/save.php allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a mixed-case extension and an extra '.' character, because (for example) "php" is blocked but path=F:/1.phP. succeeds.
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An issue was discovered in UsualToolCMS v8.0. cmsadmin\a_sqlback.php allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a backname[] directory-traversal pathname followed by a crafted substring.
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PUBLISHED: 2018-12-13
An issue was discovered in DedeCMS V5.7 SP2. uploads/include/dialog/select_images_post.php allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code via a double extension and a modified ".php" substring, in conjunction with the image/jpeg content type, as demonstrated by the filena...
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PUBLISHED: 2018-12-12
Insecure handling of temporary files in non-Windows McAfee Agent 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows an Unprivileged User to introduce custom paths during agent installation in Linux via unspecified vectors.
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PUBLISHED: 2018-12-12
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.