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Chief Scientist, Forcepoint
Member Since: 1/22/2018
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Dr. Richard Ford is the chief scientist for Forcepoint, overseeing technical direction and innovation throughout the business. He brings over 25 years' experience in computer security, with knowledge in both offensive and defensive technology solutions. During his career, Ford has held positions with Virus Bulletin, IBM Research, Command Software Systems, and NTT Verio. He also has worked in academia, having held an endowed chair in computer security, and worked as head of the Computer Sciences and Cybersecurity Department at the Florida Institute of Technology. He holds a bachelor's, master's, and D.Phil in physics from the University of Oxford.
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More SolarWinds Attack Details Emerge
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  1/12/2021
Vulnerability Management Has a Data Problem
Tal Morgenstern, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Vulcan Cyber,  1/14/2021
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CVE-2021-22850
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
HGiga EIP product lacks ineffective access control in certain pages that allow attackers to access database or perform privileged functions.
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PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
HGiga EIP product contains SQL Injection vulnerability. Attackers can inject SQL commands into specific URL parameter (document management page) to obtain database schema and data.
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HGiga EIP product contains SQL Injection vulnerability. Attackers can inject SQL commands into specific URL parameter (online registration) to obtain database schema and data.
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PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
** DISPUTED ** fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.10.8, when there is an NFS export of a subdirectory of a filesystem, allows remote attackers to traverse to other parts of the filesystem via READDIRPLUS. NOTE: some parties argue that such a subdirectory export is not intended to preven...
CVE-2021-3177
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf i...