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Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures
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Rick Grinnell is Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to building the next generation of AI technology companies that connect consumers and enterprises and secure the ecosystem. As a venture capitalist and seasoned operator, Rick has invested in some of the most dynamic companies in security, enterprise infrastructure, and storage. During his 15 years of venture capital experience, he has led investments and served on the board of directors for companies including EqualLogic (acquired by Dell), Prelert (acquired by Elastic), Pwnie Express, Resilient Systems (acquired by IBM), Trackvia, and VeloBit (acquired by Western Digital).

Rick is active with various entrepreneurial programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Tufts, and a frequent judge at MassChallenge. Rick earned BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT and an MBA from HBS.
Articles by Rick Grinnell
How Cybercriminals Clean Their Dirty Money
Alexon Bell, Global Head of AML & Compliance, Quantexa,  1/22/2019
Facebook Shuts Hundreds of Russia-Linked Pages, Accounts for Disinformation
Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  1/17/2019
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CVE-2018-20742
PUBLISHED: 2019-01-24
An issue was discovered in UC Berkeley RISE Opaque before 2018-12-01. There is no boundary check on ocall_malloc. The return value could be a pointer to enclave memory. It could cause an arbitrary enclave memory write.
CVE-2019-6486
PUBLISHED: 2019-01-24
Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.
CVE-2018-17693
PUBLISHED: 2019-01-24
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 9.2.0.9297. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the con...
CVE-2018-17694
PUBLISHED: 2019-01-24
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 9.2.0.9297. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the han...
CVE-2018-17695
PUBLISHED: 2019-01-24
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 9.2.0.9297. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the han...