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Co-Founder and SVP Products & Marketing, Alert Logic
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Misha Govshteyn co-founded Alert Logic in 2002. Misha is responsible for security strategy, security research, and software development at Alert Logic. Prior to founding Alert Logic, Govshteyn served as a Director of Managed Services for Reliant Energy Communications. In this role, he developed and successfully launched five major product lines, including Managed Intrusion Detection Services and Managed Enterprise Firewall/VPN Products. Under Govshteyn's direction, Managed Services was the fastest-growing group at Reliant Energy Communications, increasing revenue by 300% and reaching profitability in less than a year. Prior to Reliant Energy Communications, he held the position of Director of Advanced Technical Services at Insync Internet Services.
Articles by Misha Govshteyn
Worst Password Blunders of 2018 Hit Organizations East and West
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  12/12/2018
2019 Attacker Playbook
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading,  12/14/2018
How to Engage Your Cyber Enemies
Guy Nizan, CEO at Intsights Cyber Intelligence,  12/18/2018
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CVE-2018-20228
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-19
Subsonic V6.1.5 allows internetRadioSettings.view streamUrl CSRF, with resultant SSRF.
CVE-2018-20230
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-19
An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
CVE-2018-20231
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-19
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfa_enable_tfa parameter due to missing nonce validation.
CVE-2018-20227
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-19
RDF4J 2.4.2 allows Directory Traversal via ../ in an entry in a ZIP archive.
CVE-2018-19790
PUBLISHED: 2018-12-18
An open redirect was discovered in Symfony 2.7.x before 2.7.50, 2.8.x before 2.8.49, 3.x before 3.4.20, 4.0.x before 4.0.15, 4.1.x before 4.1.9 and 4.2.x before 4.2.1. By using backslashes in the `_failure_path` input field of login forms, an attacker can work around the redirection target restricti...