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System Administrator for Riverside Health System
Member Since: 5/23/2017
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Kenny Covington, System Administrator for Riverside Health System, based in Newport News, Virginia, has been a member of the information system staff for over 21 years. He originally was hired as a PC technician at age 16 and has been involved with the endpoint side of the IT business for almost his entire career. He currently is one of three Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Admins that work on automating operating system deployment and patch management, along with other duties that include mobile device management, enterprise encryption, and antivirus. He graduated with a BS degree in Information Systems from Radford University.
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US Formally Attributes SolarWinds Attack to Russian Intelligence Agency
Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer,  4/15/2021
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Dependency Problems Increase for Open Source Components
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  4/14/2021
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FBI Operation Remotely Removes Web Shells From Exchange Servers
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  4/14/2021
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CVE-2021-21070
PUBLISHED: 2021-04-19
Adobe Robohelp version 2020.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability that could lead to privilege escalation. An attacker with permissions to write to the file system could leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges.
CVE-2020-7851
PUBLISHED: 2021-04-19
Innorix Web-Based File Transfer Solution versuibs prior to and including 9.2.18.385 contains a vulnerability that could allow remote files to be downloaded and executed by setting the arguments to the internal method. A remote attacker could induce a user to access a crafted web page, causing damage...
CVE-2021-29399
PUBLISHED: 2021-04-19
XMB is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) due to inadequate filtering of BBCode input. This bug affects all versions of XMB. All XMB installations must be updated to versions 1.9.12.03 or 1.9.11.16.
CVE-2021-23381
PUBLISHED: 2021-04-18
This affects all versions of package killing. If attacker-controlled user input is given, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization.
CVE-2021-23374
PUBLISHED: 2021-04-18
This affects all versions of package ps-visitor. If attacker-controlled user input is given to the kill function, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization.