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RCE vulnerability in OpenSSH – RegreSSHion (CVE-2024-6387)

Pen Test Partners

The CVE, dubbed regreSSHion, is a regression of CVE-2006-5051 reported in 2006. Versions before 4.4p1 are also vulnerable unless patches for CVE-2006- 5051 and CVE-2008-4109 have been applied. There has been a lot of talk on various infosec news feeds about the RegreSSHion vulnerability. Does CVE-2024-6387 affect me?

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. And so I joined a very small startup called KSR at the time and that we were trying to do security as service back in that was 2006 was way too early for the market. That is, until Chenxi Wang spoke up. Today she runs a 100% woman owned VC. And it should.

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Cyber Playbook: An Overview of PCI Compliance in 2022

Herjavec Group

Since its founding in 2006, the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) has introduced a major overhaul and rewrite of the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) three times and is currently undergoing its fourth major overhaul. Every month one of our experts will provide advice and insights based on their extensive experience in the infosec industry.

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Who Wants to Become a Guest Blogger At This Blog?

Security Boulevard

Independent Contractor | Astalavista.com 2003-2006 | Astalavista.box.sk Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement agencies and organizations? Who is Dancho Danchev and what is Dancho Danchev's Blog? 2020-2022 | Lovely Horse Participant | Slashdotted Two Times | Ex-ZDNet | Ex-Webroot | Won Jessy H.

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Redesigning the Security Narrative

Duo's Security Blog

Defining “storytelling” in an InfoSec context Inspiration - We the People: Democratizing Security “Storytelling” is a word that you will hear frequently within Duo’s creative team — now part of a Brand & Strategy unit for Cisco’s rebranded security organization Cisco Secure. But where to begin?

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‘Every day is game day:’ Sports psychology expert applies his skills to cybersecurity

SC Magazine

How do you coach athletes or infosec experts to handle pressurized situations? Derin McMains, on a 2006 Toops Bowman Heritage baseball card. And so it’s helping them build those strategies so they can be their best each and every day. When security pros are responding to a major incident, the game is on the line. Misery is optional.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

In 2006, BackTrack Linux happened which was based initially on Slax, then moved to Ubuntu. This created BackTrack in May 2006. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Writing exploits or developing infosec tools is no exception, they often need to have access to the latest libraries.

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