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Senior Solutions Architect, DFLabs
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Heather Hixon is a senior solutions architect for security orchestration, automation and response vendor DFLabs. She has been a SOC team leader, SOC analyst and SIEM engineer with NTT Security, and served in IT management roles with several other organizations. Heather is CompTIA Security+, SANS GSEC and GCIA certified.
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97% of Americans Can't Ace a Basic Security Test
Steve Zurier, Contributing Writer,  5/20/2019
TeamViewer Admits Breach from 2016
Dark Reading Staff 5/20/2019
How a Manufacturing Firm Recovered from a Devastating Ransomware Attack
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  5/20/2019
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CVE-2019-10855
PUBLISHED: 2019-05-23
Computrols CBAS 18.0.0 mishandles password hashes. The approach is MD5 with a pw prefix, e.g., if the password is admin, it will calculate the MD5 hash of pwadmin and store it in a MySQL database.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-05-23
In the Form Maker plugin before 1.13.3 for WordPress, it's possible to achieve SQL injection in the function get_labels_parameters in the file form-maker/admin/models/Submissions_fm.php with a crafted value of the /models/Submissioc parameter.
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PUBLISHED: 2019-05-23
asterisk 13.10.0 is affected by: denial of service issues in asterisk. The impact is: cause a denial of service (remote).
CVE-2016-8897
PUBLISHED: 2019-05-23
Exponent CMS version 2.3.9 suffers from a sql injection vulnerability in framework/modules/help/controllers/helpController.php.
CVE-2016-8899
PUBLISHED: 2019-05-23
Exponent CMS version 2.3.9 suffers from a Object Injection vulnerability in framework/modules/core/controllers/expCatController.php related to change_cats.