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Founder, Foreground Security
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David Amsler is founder of Foreground Security, which was recently acquired by Raytheon Company. Given his level of expertise and knowledge, Amsler has taught more than 350 information security courses to top government organizations, including the Internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency, Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Information Systems Agency and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In addition, he has developed policies and procedures that are now documented and recognized as key, operational standards for numerous government agencies. As a result, he remains a distinguished leader and strategic consultant to high-level executives throughout the globe especially within the information security auditing and testing arena.
Articles by David Amsler
I 'Hacked' My Accounts Using My Mobile Number: Here's What I Learned
Nicole Sette, Director in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps,  11/19/2019
DevSecOps: The Answer to the Cloud Security Skills Gap
Lamont Orange, Chief Information Security Officer at Netskope,  11/15/2019
Attackers' Costs Increasing as Businesses Focus on Security
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  11/15/2019
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CVE-2013-3311
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-21
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Loftek Nexus 543 IP Camera allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URL of an HTTP GET request.
CVE-2013-3312
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-21
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Loftek Nexus 543 IP Camera allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that change (1) passwords or (2) firewall configuration, as demonstrated by a request to set_users.cgi.
CVE-2013-3313
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-21
The Loftek Nexus 543 IP Camera stores passwords in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an HTTP GET request to check_users.cgi. NOTE: cleartext passwords can also be obtained from proc/kcore when leveraging the directory traversal vulnerability in CVE-2013-331...
CVE-2013-3314
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-21
The Loftek Nexus 543 IP Camera allows remote attackers to obtain (1) IP addresses via a request to get_realip.cgi or (2) firmware versions (ui and system), timestamp, serial number, p2p port number, and wifi status via a request to get_status.cgi.
CVE-2015-2793
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-21
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in templates/openid-selector.tmpl in ikiwiki before 3.20150329 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the openid_identifier parameter in a verify action to ikiwiki.cgi.