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Sr. VP & CISO, BlackBerry
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John McClurg is Blackberry's chief information security officer. In this role, he leads all aspects of BlackBerry's information security program globally, ensuring the development and implementation of cybersecurity policies and procedures. John comes to BlackBerry from Cylance where he served as Vice President and CISO.  Previously he served as chief security officer at Dell and held senior positions with Honeywell International, Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories, the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Department of Energy, the FBI, and the CIA. John co-chaired the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) of the U.S. Department of State and served as the founding chairman of the International Security Foundation. John holds a J.D. degree from Brigham Young University, MA in Organizational Behavior, BS and BA degrees in University Studies and Philosophy from Brigham Young, and advanced doctoral studies in Philosophical Hermeneutics at UNC-Chapel Hill and UCLA.
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Bleichenbacher's attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 padding for RSA in STM32 cryptographic firmware library software expansion for STM32Cube (UM1924). The vulnerability can allow one to use Bleichenbacher's oracle attack to decrypt an encrypted ciphertext by making successive queries to the server using the vul...
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A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in dnsmasq when DNSSEC is enabled and before it validates the received DNS entries. A remote attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow in a heap-allocated memory. T...
CVE-2020-25684
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-20
A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query, dnsmasq checks in the forward.c:reply_query() if the reply destination address/port is used by the pending forwarded queries. However, it does not use the address/port to retrieve the exact forwarded query,...
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PUBLISHED: 2021-01-20
A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query, dnsmasq checks in forward.c:reply_query(), which is the forwarded query that matches the reply, by only using a weak hash of the query name. Due to the weak hash (CRC32 when dnsmasq is compiled without DNSS...
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PUBLISHED: 2021-01-20
Employee Performance Evaluation System in PHP/MySQLi with Source Code 1.0 is affected by cross-site scripting (XSS) in the Employees, First Name and Last Name fields.