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VP, Principal Scientist, Comodo
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Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker is VP and principal scientist at Comodo, a global cybersecurity firm. Dr. Hallam-Baker has approximately 25 years of experience in Web security, with 12 years spent as principal scientist at VeriSign. He has worked on Web security since 1992, when he worked with the world-renowned Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
Articles by Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker
RDP Bug Takes New Approach to Host Compromise
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  7/18/2019
The Problem with Proprietary Testing: NSS Labs vs. CrowdStrike
Brian Monkman, Executive Director at NetSecOPEN,  7/19/2019
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PUBLISHED: 2019-07-23
Upwork Time Tracker 5.2.2.716 doesn't verify the SHA256 hash of the downloaded program update before running it, which could lead to code execution or local privilege escalation by replacing the original update.exe.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-07-23
GNUBOARD5 5.3.1.9 has XSS that allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "board title contents" parameter, aka the adm/board_form_update.php bo_subject parameter.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-07-23
Jsish 2.4.84 2.0484 is affected by: Reachable Assertion. The impact is: denial of service. The component is: function Jsi_ValueArrayIndex (jsiValue.c:366). The attack vector is: executing crafted javascript code. The fixed version is: after commit 738ead193aff380a7e3d7ffb8e11e446f76867f3.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-07-23
If hyperthreading is not disabled, a timing attack vulnerability exists, similar to previous Spectre attacks. Apple has shipped macOS 10.14.5 with an option to disable hyperthreading in applications running untrusted code in a thread through a new sysctl. Firefox now makes use of it on the main thre...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-07-23
A possible vulnerability exists where type confusion can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects in object groups, allowing for the bypassing of security checks within these groups. *Note: this vulnerability has only been demonstrated with UnboxedObjects, which are disabled by default on all supp...