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Vice President of Product Strategy at Wandera
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Michael J. Covington, Ph.D., is a seasoned technologist and the Vice President of Product Strategy for Wandera, a leading provider of mobile security. Michael is a hands-on innovator with broad experience across the entire product life cycle, from planning and R&D to executing on company strategies. He previously held leadership roles at Intel Labs, Cisco Security, and Juniper Networks. With a diverse background as a published computer science researcher and as an IT professional, Michael has experienced technology from all sides and enjoys bringing innovations to the market, specifically in the areas of mobility and connectivity.
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Robert R. Ackerman Jr., Founder & Managing Director, Allegis Capital,  4/7/2020
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Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer,  4/8/2020
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CVE-2020-1633
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-09
Due to a new NDP proxy feature for EVPN leaf nodes introduced in Junos OS 17.4, crafted NDPv6 packets could transit a Junos device configured as a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) and reach the EVPN leaf node, causing a stale MAC address entry. This could cause legitimate traffic to be discarded, le...
CVE-2020-8834
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-09
KVM in the Linux kernel on Power8 processors has a conflicting use of HSTATE_HOST_R1 to store r1 state in kvmppc_hv_entry plus in kvmppc__tm, leading to a stack corruption. Because of this, an attacker with the ability run code in kernel space of a guest VM can cause the host kernel to...
CVE-2020-11668
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-09
In the Linux kernel before 5.6.1, drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlink_cit.c (aka the Xirlink camera USB driver) mishandles invalid descriptors, aka CID-a246b4d54770.
CVE-2020-8961
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-09
An issue was discovered in Avira Free-Antivirus before 15.0.2004.1825. The Self-Protection feature does not prohibit a write operation from an external process. Thus, code injection can be used to turn off this feature. After that, one can construct an event that will modify a file at a specific loc...
CVE-2020-7922
PUBLISHED: 2020-04-09
X.509 certificates generated by the MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator may allow an attacker with access to the Kubernetes cluster improper access to MongoDB instances. Customers who do not use X.509 authentication, and those who do not use the Operator to generate their X.509 certificates are u...