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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
Data Privacy Careers Are Helping to Close the IT Gender Gap
Dana Simberkoff, Chief Risk, Privacy, and Information Security Officer, AvePoint, Inc.,  8/20/2018
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
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CVE-2018-15660
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-21
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the Ola Money (aka com.olacabs.olamoney) application 1.9.0 for Android. If an attacker controls an application with accessibility permissions, then the attacker can read certain Ola Money data such as a credit card number, expiration date, bank account numbe...
CVE-2018-15661
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-21
** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the Ola Money (aka com.olacabs.olamoney) application 1.9.0 for Android. If an attacker controls an application with accessibility permissions and the ability to read SMS messages, then the Forgot Password screen can be used to bypass authentication. NOTE: th...
CVE-2018-15481
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-21
Improper input sanitization within the restricted administration shell on UCOPIA Wireless Appliance devices using firmware version 5.1.x before 5.1.13 allows authenticated remote attackers to escape the shell and escalate their privileges by adding a LocalCommand to the SSH configuration file in the...
CVE-2018-15528
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-21
Reflected Cross-Site Scripting exists in the Java System Solutions SSO plugin 4.0.13.1 for BMC MyIT. A remote attacker can abuse this issue to inject client-side scripts into the "select_sso()" function. The payload is triggered when the victim opens a prepared /ux/jss-sso/arslogin?[XSS] l...
CVE-2018-15533
PUBLISHED: 2018-08-21
A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Geutebrueck re_porter 16 before 7.8.974.20 by appending a query string to /modifychannel/exec or /images/*.png on TCP port 12005.