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CISSP, Senior Manager, CyberClarity360
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Shay Colson, CISSP, senior manager, CyberClarity360, joined Duff & Phelps from the US Department of the Treasury to lead the assessment team for CyberClarity360. He has over a decade of experience in cybersecurity and information assurance, with a focus on designing and building secure systems. Shay is a proven innovator in exponential technologies, having been inventor or co-inventor on nearly a dozen patents around 3D printing, self-driving cars, drones, blockchain, and smart-contract technologies.
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7 Truths About BEC Scams
Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer,  6/13/2019
DNS Firewalls Could Prevent Billions in Losses to Cybercrime
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  6/13/2019
Can Your Patching Strategy Keep Up with the Demands of Open Source?
Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist, CyRC, at Synopsys,  6/18/2019
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CVE-2019-12875
PUBLISHED: 2019-06-18
Alpine Linux abuild through 3.4.0 allows an unprivileged member of the abuild group to add an untrusted package via a --keys-dir option that causes acceptance of an untrusted signing key.
CVE-2017-8335
PUBLISHED: 2019-06-18
An issue was discovered on Securifi Almond, Almond+, and Almond 2015 devices with firmware AL-R096. The device provides a user with the capability of setting name for wireless network. These values are stored by the device in NVRAM (Non-volatile RAM). It seems that the POST parameters passed in this...
CVE-2017-8336
PUBLISHED: 2019-06-18
An issue was discovered on Securifi Almond, Almond+, and Almond 2015 devices with firmware AL-R096. The device provides a user with the capability of adding new routes to the device. It seems that the POST parameters passed in this request to set up routes on the device can be set in such a way that...
CVE-2019-12874
PUBLISHED: 2019-06-18
An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.x through 3.0.7. The Matroska demuxer, while parsing a malformed MKV file type, has a double free.
CVE-2012-6711
PUBLISHED: 2019-06-18
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in GNU Bash before 4.3 when wide characters, not supported by the current locale set in the LC_CTYPE environment variable, are printed through the echo built-in function. A local attacker, who can provide data to print through the "echo -e" built-in func...