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Many of us might need a helping hand to defeat our video game rivals, but you could end up shooting yourself in the foot.
USN-5325-1: Zsh vulnerabilities
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Sam Foxman discovered that Zsh incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to regain dropped privileges.
(CVE-2019-20044)
It was discovered that Zsh incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2021-45444)
UK Unveils New Cyber Flashing Law
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People who send unsolicited sexual images could serve two years in prison
Exclusive: iboss Issues School District Cybersecurity Warning
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Research finds “startlingly low understanding” of cybersecurity risks among school leaders
CVE-2021-24950
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The Insight Core WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not have any authorisation and CSRF checks in the insight_customizer_options_import (available to any authenticated user), does not validate user input before passing it to unserialize(), nor sanitise and escape it before outputting it in the response. As a result, it could allow users with a role as low as Subscriber to perform PHP Object Injection, as well as Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
CVE-2021-24940
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The Persian Woocommerce WordPress plugin through 5.8.0 does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in the admin dashboard, which could lead to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue
CVE-2021-24897
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The Add Subtitle WordPress plugin through 1.1.0 does not sanitise or escape the sub-title field (available only with classic editor) when output in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks
CVE-2021-24895
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The Cybersoldier WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not sanitise and escape the URL settings before outputting it in an attribute, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
CVE-2021-24692
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The Simple Download Monitor WordPress plugin before 3.9.5 allows users with a role as low as Contributor to download any file on the web server (such as wp-config.php) via a path traversal vector.
Upcoming Speaking Events
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This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m participating in an online panel discussion on “Ukraine and Russia: The Online War,” hosted by UMass Amherst, at 5:00 PM Eastern on March 31, 2022.
I’m speaking at Future Summits in Antwerp, Belgium on May 18, 2022.
I’m speaking at IT-S Now 2022 in Vienna on June 2, 2022.
I’m speaking at the 14th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon 2022, in Tallinn, Estonia on June 3, 2022.
I’m speaking at the RSA Conference 2022 in San Francisco, June 6-9, 2022.
I’m speaking at the Dublin Tech Summit in Dublin, Ireland, June 15-16, 2022.
The list is maintained on this page.