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Manager, Threat Intelligence Production Team, IBM X-Force IRIS
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Michelle Alvarez is the manager of the Threat Intelligence Production Team with IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS). She brings nearly 20 years of industry experience to her role, specializing in threat research and communication. In her current role, she focuses communications efforts around strategic threat and impact assessments for X-Force IRIS clients. Michelle's previous roles include threat analyst, writer, and manager with IBM Managed Security Services (MSS).
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CVE-2020-13775
PUBLISHED: 2020-06-02
ZNC before 1.8.1-rc1 allows attackers to trigger an application crash (with a NULL pointer dereference) if echo-message is not enabled and there is no network.
CVE-2020-12607
PUBLISHED: 2020-06-02
An issue was discovered in fastecdsa before 2.1.2. When using the NIST P-256 curve in the ECDSA implementation, the point at infinity is mishandled. This means that for an extreme value in k and s^-1, the signature verification fails even if the signature is correct. This behavior is not solely a us...
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PUBLISHED: 2020-06-02
common.php in the Gravity Forms plugin before 2.4.9 for WordPress can leak hashed passwords because user_pass is not considered a special case for a $current_user->get($property) call.
CVE-2020-13760
PUBLISHED: 2020-06-02
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PUBLISHED: 2020-06-02
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