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Solutions Principal, IT and Digital Solutions, Skillsoft
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Jim Zimmermann is Skillsoft's Solutions Principal for IT and Digital Skills Portfolios. He works with current and prospective customers to help them address their IT skills challenges through training. In 2016, Jim was
awarded Skillsoft's Outstanding Achievement Award for supporting Skillsoft's IT training solution sales efforts.

Jim has more than 40 years of experience in IT and telecommunications and has started and sold three successful IT and media businesses. Jim is also a successful writer and analyst, and he donates his time and talent to help nonprofits develop their Web and social presence.
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Data Leak Week: Billions of Sensitive Files Exposed Online
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  12/10/2019
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-13
The FTP client in AceaXe Plus 1.0 allows a buffer overflow via a long EHLO response from an FTP server.
CVE-2019-19777
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-13
stb_image.h (aka the stb image loader) 2.23, as used in libsixel and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read in stbi__load_main.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-13
An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.2. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function load_sixel at loader.c.
CVE-2019-16777
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-13
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of pa...
CVE-2019-16775
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-13
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.3 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Write. It is possible for packages to create symlinks to files outside of thenode_modules folder through the bin field upon installation. A properly constructed entry in the package.json bin field would allow a package publi...