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Accenture Managing Director, Security
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Dan Mellen joined Accenture's security technologies organization in 1999. During his tenure, he has worked with clients in public service, retail, financial services, utilities, pharmaceuticals, communications, and high tech to find security solutions to meet their business needs. Dan has knowledge and experience in a variety of information security disciplines including security assessments, enterprise security architecture, compliance management, threat and vulnerability management, cloud, and industrial control system security. For the past several years, Dan has focused his experiences in extended enterprise security, helping Accenture strategy and client organizations integrate cloud, mobile and social platform security. Dan was responsible for the development of the Accenture Cloud & Mobile Security Ecosystem - offering a use case-based environment for client demonstrations, proof of concepts and product integration prototyping. Dan is a graduate of The University of Virginia, with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Articles by Daniel Mellen
Russia Hacked Clinton's Computers Five Hours After Trump's Call
Robert Lemos, Technology Journalist/Data Researcher,  4/19/2019
Why We Need a 'Cleaner Internet'
Darren Anstee, Chief Technology Officer at Arbor Networks,  4/19/2019
Tips for the Aftermath of a Cyberattack
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  4/17/2019
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CVE-2019-11469
PUBLISHED: 2019-04-23
Zoho ManageEngine Applications Manager 12 through 14 allows FaultTemplateOptions.jsp resourceid SQL injection. Subsequently, an unauthenticated user can gain the authority of SYSTEM on the server by uploading a malicious file via the "Execute Program Action(s)" feature.
CVE-2013-7470
PUBLISHED: 2019-04-23
cipso_v4_validate in include/net/cipso_ipv4.h in the Linux kernel before 3.11.7, when CONFIG_NETLABEL is disabled, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash), as demonstrated by icmpsic, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0310.
CVE-2019-11463
PUBLISHED: 2019-04-23
A memory leak in archive_read_format_zip_cleanup in archive_read_support_format_zip.c in libarchive through 3.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted ZIP file because of a HAVE_LZMA_H typo.
CVE-2019-0218
PUBLISHED: 2019-04-22
A vulnerability was discovered wherein a specially crafted URL could enable reflected XSS via JavaScript in the pony mail interface.
CVE-2019-11383
PUBLISHED: 2019-04-22
An issue was discovered in the Medha WiFi FTP Server application 1.8.3 for Android. An attacker can read the username/password of a valid user via /data/data/com.medhaapps.wififtpserver/shared_prefs/com.medhaapps.wififtpserver_preferences.xml