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Tyler Reguly
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Tyler Reguly is Associate Director, Security R&D at Fortra, responsible for overseeing a team of researchers that provide the security expertise for the company’s integrity and compliance monitoring solution. Tyler joined Fortra in 2022 when the company acquired Tripwire, where Tyler had been a part of the research team for more than fifteen years. In addition to security research, Tyler has worked closely with Fanshawe College, from which he graduated with a diploma in Computer Systems Technology, developing five courses including subjects like Advanced Hacker Techniques & Tactics, Hacking and Exploits, Malware Research, Evolving Technologies and Threats, and Python Programming. He has also taught all five courses that he developed on multiple occasions.

Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the week of September 27, 2021

| | cybercrime, ICloud, Microsoft, Ransomware, rEvil, VERT News, Windows, Zero-day Vulnerability
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly reviewing the news for interesting stories and developments in the cybersecurity world. Here’s what stood out to us during the week of September 27, 2021. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire ... Read More
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VERT Threat Alert: September 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

| | CVE, Featured Articles, Patch Tuesday, VERT
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s September 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-964 on Wednesday, September 15th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-40444 This CVE describes a publicly exploited vulnerability in MSHTML that provides user level access upon successful exploitation. According ... Read More
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VERT Threat Alert: August 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

| | CVE, Patch Tuesday, VERT, VERT News
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-959 on Wednesday, August 11th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-36948 This privilege escalation vulnerability that affects the Windows Update Medic Service (WaasMedic) has been actively exploited. Medic Service ... Read More
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VERT Threat Alert: July 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

| | CVE, Patch Tuesday, VERT
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s July 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-954 on Wednesday, July 14th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-34527 The vulnerability dubbed PrintNightmare was patched prior to the Tuesday patch drop, but it is still worth including ... Read More
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Save the Embarrassment: The Value of Two-Factor Authentication on Social Media

Save the Embarrassment: The Value of Two-Factor Authentication on Social Media

| | 2fa, IT Security and Data Protection, Multi-Factor Authentication, Password, Privacy, social media
These days, it’s not a matter if your password will be breached but when. Major websites experience massive data breaches at an alarming rate. Have I Been Pwned currently has records from 543 sites comprising 11.4 billion accounts. This includes well-known names like Wattpad, MySpace, and Facebook. This is an ... Read More
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VERT Threat Alert: June 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

| | Featured Articles, VERT, VERT News
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s June 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-947 on Wednesday, June 9th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-31955 This is one of two vulnerabilities fixed in today’s patch drop which were reported by Kaspersky Lab after ... Read More
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#TripwireBookClub – The Crypto Dictionary

| | Crypto, review, VERT
Welcome back to #TripwireBookClub. If you recall, the last book we reviewed was The Ghidra Book: The Definitive Guide, a book that I thoroughly enjoyed because I’m a huge fan of everything Chris Eagle writes. This time, we’re looking at THIS LINK DOES NOT WORK Crypto Dictionary: 500 Tasty Tidbits ... Read More
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VERT Threat Alert: May 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

| | VERT, VERT News, Vulnerability Management
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s May 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-943 on Wednesday, May 12th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-31204 Up first in the list this month, we have a vulnerability that impacts .NET and Visual Studio and ... Read More
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The Death Star’s Demise: Can You Trust Your IoT Vendors?

| | iot, network, Off Topic, Star Wars
It was 1977, and soon-to-be-fans were greeted with a masterful score and scrolling text. Darth Vader and Princess Leia share the screen in those opening moments, and the Star Wars universe was created. Nearly 30 years later, a new film would introduce us to the events immediately preceding the “scene ... Read More
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VERT Threat Alert: April 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

| | VERT, VERT News
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s April 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-939 on Wednesday, April 14th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-28310 Borin Larin of Kaspersky Lab discovered this vulnerability being actively used for exploitation and suspects that it is ... Read More
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