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Kenny Covington

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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.
Articles by Kenny Covington
Meet 'Bro': The Best-Kept Secret of Network Security
Greg Bell, CEO, Corelight,  6/14/2018
Containerized Apps: An 8-Point Security Checklist
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writer,  6/14/2018
Four Faces of Fraud: Identity, 'Fake' Identity, Ransomware & Digital
David Shefter, Chief Technology Officer at Ziften Technologies,  6/14/2018
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CVE-2018-0291
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-20
A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) input packet processor of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause the SNMP application on an affected device to restart unexpectedly. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of SNMP protocol ...
CVE-2018-0292
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-20
A vulnerability in the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code and gain full control of an affected system. The attacker could also cause an affected system to reload, resulting in ...
CVE-2018-0293
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-20
A vulnerability in role-based access control (RBAC) for Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute CLI commands that should be restricted for a nonadministrative user. The attacker would have to possess valid user credentials for the device. The vulnerability is du...
CVE-2018-0294
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-20
A vulnerability in the write-erase feature of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to configure an unauthorized administrator account for an affected device. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not properly delete sensitive...
CVE-2018-0295
PUBLISHED: 2018-06-20
A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition due to the device unexpectedly reloading. The vulnerability is due to incomplete input validation of the BGP update...