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Principal Threat Researcher
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David Pearson has been analyzing network traffic for well over a decade, having used Wireshark ever since it was Ethereal. He has spent the majority of his professional career understanding how networks and applications work, currently as Principal Threat Researcher for Awake Security. The Awake Network Detection and Response Platform accelerates security teams' ability to detect threats, including fileless malware, malicious insiders, credential abuse, and lateral movement. David holds computer security degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology (BS) and Carnegie Mellon University (MS).
Articles by David Pearson
posted in October 2020
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Inside the Ransomware Campaigns Targeting Exchange Servers
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  4/2/2021
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Beyond MITRE ATT&CK: The Case for a New Cyber Kill Chain
Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions, Omdia,  3/30/2021
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Valve Steam through 2021-04-10, when a Source engine game is installed, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code because of a buffer overflow that occurs for a Steam invite after one click.
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Zoom Chat through 2021-04-09 on Windows and macOS allows certain remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code without user interaction. An attacker must be within the same organization, or an external party who has been accepted as a contact. NOTE: this is specific to the Zoom Chat softw...
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Use after free in screen sharing in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.114 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVE-2021-21195
PUBLISHED: 2021-04-09
Use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.114 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.