Simon Howard

Chief Technology Officer

Simon has been active in the New Zealand information security space for almost two decades.

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Highlights

Career highlights

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Co-founded and assists with running New Zealand’s largest hacker conference, Kawaiicon (previously known as Kiwicon). Co-founder Bastion Security Group. Founded ZX Security. Simon holds a number of cyber security advisory positions and has completed the Institute of Directors Companies Directors Course.

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Silverstripe - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the administrator panel of Silverstripe CMS, specifically in the handling of the user input within the form messages module.

Silverstripe - Host Header Injection

A Host header injection vulnerability in Silverstripe has been identified that allows an attacker to poison the password rese

Sam Schroder found a local file inclusion (write only) vulnerability inside of the upload functionality of Statamic CMS. This affects front end components like forms with `assets` fields.

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