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Worldwide Vice President of SpiderLabs at Trustwave
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Lawrence Munro works with Trustwave's elite team of forensic investigators, researchers, and ethical hackers, SpiderLabs, as worldwide vice president of SpiderLabs at Trustwave, responsible for all penetration testing functions within the practice. Lawrence has over 12 years experience working in information technology, with a deep technical background as a penetration tester and social engineer. Lawrence is an executive committee member for CREST, a director of B-Sides London, and is currently working on a book about security assessments. Prior to joining Trustwave, Lawrence was the head of penetration testing and red teaming at KPMG. Lawrence is currently a post-graduate student at Oxford University for software and systems security.
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It Takes an Average of 3 to 6 Months to Fill a Cybersecurity Job
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  3/12/2019
763M Email Addresses Exposed in Latest Database Misconfiguration Episode
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  3/11/2019
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-18
An unquoted search path vulnerability was identified in Lenovo Dynamic Power Reduction Utility prior to version 2.2.2.0 that could allow a malicious user with local access to execute code with administrative privileges.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-03-18
Five9 Agent Desktop Plus 10.0.70 has Incorrect Access Control (issue 2 of 2).
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Phamm (aka PHP LDAP Virtual Hosting Manager) 0.6.8 allows XSS via the login page (the /public/main.php action parameter).
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CircuitWerkes Sicon-8, a hardware device used for managing electrical devices, ships with a web-based front-end controller and implements an authentication mechanism in JavaScript that is run in the context of a user's web browser.
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An Integer overflow vulnerability exists in the batchTransfer function of a smart contract implementation for CryptoBotsBattle (CBTB), an Ethereum token. This vulnerability could be used by an attacker to create an arbitrary amount of tokens for any user.