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CTO and Co-Founder of Blue Hexagon
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Saumitra Das is the CTO and Co-Founder of Blue Hexagon. He has worked on machine learning and cybersecurity for 18 years. As an engineering leader at Qualcomm, he led teams of machine learning scientists and developers in the development of ML-based products shipped in hundreds of millions of devices from phones to wearables and IoT. He has also worked on machine learning and security at US-CERT, Intel, and Microsoft Research. He is a prolific inventor with 330 worldwide and 125 US granted patents and an additional 450 patents pending. He has published peer-reviewed original research extensively (15 journal, 26 conference, two book chapters, IETF networking standards contributions) with more than 2,400 citations including a best-paper award. He holds an MSEE from Carnegie Mellon and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.
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When Every Attack Is a Zero Day

4/23/2019
Stopping malware the first time is an ideal that has remained tantalizingly out of reach. But automation, artificial intelligence, and deep learning are poised to change that.
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CVE-2020-6994
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-03
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in some devices of Hirschmann Automation and Control HiOS and HiSecOS. The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of URL arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by specially crafting HTTP requests to overflow an internal buffer. The followi...
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PUBLISHED: 2020-04-03
A SQL injection vulnerability in TestLink 1.9.20 allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands in dragdroptreenodes.php via the node_id parameter.
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PUBLISHED: 2020-04-03
A SQL injection vulnerability in TestLink 1.9.20 allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands in planUrgency.php via the urgency parameter.
CVE-2020-8639
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-03
An unrestricted file upload vulnerability in keywordsImport.php in TestLink 1.9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension. This allows an authenticated attacker to upload a malicious file (containing PHP code to execute operating system com...
CVE-2020-10601
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-03
VISAM VBASE Editor version 11.5.0.2 and VBASE Web-Remote Module allow weak hashing algorithm and insecure permissions which may allow a local attacker to bypass the password-protected mechanism through brute-force attacks, cracking techniques, or overwriting the password hash.