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Robert E. Crossler
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Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Washington State University
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Robert E. Crossler, an assistant professor of information systems, joined the Department of Management, Information Systems & Entrepreneurship in the Carson College of Business at Washington State University in July 2016. He obtained his bachelor's degree in information systems from the University of Idaho and his Ph.D. in accounting and information systems from Virginia Tech. His primary research interests are in the areas of information security and privacy.

Crossler's award-winning information privacy and security research has been published in top academic journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal and Decision Support Systems. His research in information privacy was recognized by the INFORMS Information Systems Society with their 2013 Design Science Award. His research in information security was recognized by The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems as paper of the year in 2014 and by the Journal of Information Systems with its inaugural "Best Paper" award in 2017.

Crossler is also the president-elect of the Association for Information System's Special Interest Group on Security (SIGSEC). He is also a member of ISACA and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
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Navigating Security in the Cloud
Diya Jolly, Chief Product Officer, Okta,  12/4/2019
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-07
The serialize-to-js NPM package before version 3.0.1 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). It does not properly mitigate against unsafe characters in serialized regular expressions. This vulnerability is not affected on Node.js environment since Node.js's implementation of RegExp.prototype.to...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-06
In various functions of RecentLocationApps.java, DevicePolicyManagerService.java, and RecognitionService.java, there is an incorrect warning indicating an app accessed the user's location. This could dissolve the trust in the platform's permission system, with no additional execution privileges need...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-06
In checkOperation of AppOpsService.java, there is a possible bypass of user interaction requirements due to mishandling application suspend. This could lead to local information disclosure no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVers...
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PUBLISHED: 2019-12-06
In hasActivityInVisibleTask of WindowProcessController.java there?s a possible bypass of user interaction requirements due to incorrect handling of top activities in INITIALIZING state. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction ...
CVE-2019-2222
PUBLISHED: 2019-12-06
n ihevcd_parse_slice_data of ihevcd_parse_slice.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote code execution with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-8.0 Android...