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Robert McFarlane is the Chief Revenue Officer of Mosaic451, a managed security services provider (MMSP) and consultancy. He has 20-plus years of business development in telecom, data networking, and cybersecurity. He has contributed to the growth, establishment, and expansion of companies ultimately acquired by EarthLink and Comcast. McFarlane is a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy Reserves, Information Warfare Community, with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also serves on the CompTIA Partner Advisory Board & Cyber Security Advisory Council.
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CVE-2020-17478
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-10
ECDSA/EC/Point.pm in Crypt::Perl before 0.33 does not properly consider timing attacks against the EC point multiplication algorithm.
CVE-2020-15648
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-10
Using object or embed tags, it was possible to frame other websites, even if they disallowed framing using the X-Frame-Options header. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78 and Firefox < 78.0.2.
CVE-2020-15649
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-10
Given an installed malicious file picker application, an attacker was able to steal and upload local files of their choosing, regardless of the actually files picked. *Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR...
CVE-2020-15650
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-10
Given an installed malicious file picker application, an attacker was able to overwrite local files and thus overwrite Firefox settings (but not access the previous profile). *Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Fir...
CVE-2020-15651
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-10
A unicode RTL order character in the downloaded file name can be used to change the file's name during the download UI flow to change the file extension. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS < 28.