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Distinguished Technologist, MapR
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John Omernik is a recognized expert in detecting security threats and preventing fraud using data analytics. Prior to joining MapR, John was senior vice president, security innovations, at Bank of America where his responsibilities included architecting a next generation security data platform focused on speed-of-delivery and ease-of-use for security practitioners. John's experience in the financial industry includes information security, threat intelligence, and fraud analytics/prevention.
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Microsoft Patches Wormable RCE Vulns in Remote Desktop Services
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  8/13/2019
The Mainframe Is Seeing a Resurgence. Is Security Keeping Pace?
Ray Overby, Co-Founder & President at Key Resources, Inc.,  8/15/2019
GitHub Named in Capital One Breach Lawsuit
Dark Reading Staff 8/14/2019
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CVE-2019-15237
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-20
Roundcube Webmail through 1.3.9 mishandles Punycode xn-- domain names, leading to homograph attacks.
CVE-2019-15228
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-20
FUEL CMS 1.4.4 has XSS in the Create Blocks section of the Admin console. This could lead to cookie stealing and other malicious actions. This vulnerability can be exploited with an authenticated account but can also impact unauthenticated visitors.
CVE-2019-15229
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-20
FUEL CMS 1.4.4 has CSRF in the blocks/create/ Create Blocks section of the Admin console. This could lead to an attacker tricking the administrator into executing arbitrary code via a specially crafted HTML page.
CVE-2019-15231
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-20
Webmin 1.890, in a default installation, contains a backdoor that allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute commands. This is different from CVE-2019-15107. NOTE: as of 2019-08-19, the vendor reports that "at some point" malicious code was inserted into their build infrastruct...
CVE-2019-15232
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-20
Live555 before 2019.08.16 has a Use-After-Free because GenericMediaServer::createNewClientSessionWithId can generate the same client session ID in succession, which is mishandled by the MPEG1or2 and Matroska file demultiplexors.