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Distinguished Analyst, Brad Shimmin has more than 25 years of experience in IT technology, helping enterprises and high-tech companies work effectively across a number of market areas including enterprise data and analytics management, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and DevOps. He is skilled in business development, competitive intelligence, market evaluation, go-to-market messaging, technology selection, quantitative research, and software development. He also has experience as an IT professional, business analyst, software developer, database administrator, book author/editor, and high-tech journalist/editor.
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Stop Defending Everything
Kevin Kurzawa, Senior Information Security Auditor,  2/12/2020
Small Business Security: 5 Tips on How and Where to Start
Mike Puglia, Chief Strategy Officer at Kaseya,  2/13/2020
Architectural Analysis IDs 78 Specific Risks in Machine-Learning Systems
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer,  2/13/2020
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CVE-2020-7050
PUBLISHED: 2020-02-15
Codologic Codoforum through 4.8.4 allows a DOM-based XSS. While creating a new topic as a normal user, it is possible to add a poll that is automatically loaded in the DOM once the thread/topic is opened. Because session cookies lack the HttpOnly flag, it is possible to steal authentication cookies ...
CVE-2019-13965
PUBLISHED: 2020-02-14
Because of a lack of sanitization around error messages, multiple Reflective XSS issues exist in iTop through 2.6.0 via the param_file parameter to webservices/export.php, webservices/cron.php, or env-production/itop-backup/backup.php. By default, any XSS sent to the administrator can be transformed...
CVE-2019-13966
PUBLISHED: 2020-02-14
In iTop through 2.6.0, an XSS payload can be delivered in certain fields (such as icon) of the XML file used to build the dashboard. This is similar to CVE-2015-6544 (which is only about the dashboard title).
CVE-2019-13967
PUBLISHED: 2020-02-14
iTop 2.2.0 through 2.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application outage) via many requests to launch a compile operation. The requests use the pages/exec.php?exec_env=production&exec_module=itop-hub-connector&exec_page=ajax.php&operation=compile URI. This only a...
CVE-2019-15592
PUBLISHED: 2020-02-14
GitLab 12.2.2 and below contains a security vulnerability that allows a guest user in a private project to see the merge request ID associated to an issue via the activity timeline.