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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
New Cold Boot Attack Gives Hackers the Keys to PCs, Macs
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  9/13/2018
Yahoo Class-Action Suits Set for Settlement
Dark Reading Staff 9/17/2018
RDP Ports Prove Hot Commodities on the Dark Web
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  9/17/2018
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CVE-2018-17177
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-18
An issue was discovered on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 and Botvac 85 1.2.1 devices. Static encryption is used for the copying of so-called "black box" logs (event logs and core dumps) to a USB stick. These logs are RC4-encrypted with a 9-character password of *^JEd4W!I that is obfuscated ...
CVE-2018-17178
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-18
An issue was discovered on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 devices. They execute unauthenticated manual drive commands (sent to /bin/webserver on port 8081) if they already have an active session. Commands like forward, back, arc-left, arc-right, pivot-left, and pivot-right are executed even though the...
CVE-2018-11869
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-18
In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, lack of length validation check for value received from firmware can lead to buffer overflow in WMA handler.
CVE-2018-17176
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-18
A replay issue was discovered on Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 devices. Manual control mode requires authentication, but once recorded, the authentication (always transmitted in cleartext) can be replayed to /bin/webserver on port 8081. There are no nonces, and timestamps are not checked at all.
CVE-2018-11852
PUBLISHED: 2018-09-18
In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, improper check In the WMA API for the inputs received from the firmware and then fills the same to the host structure will lead to OOB write.