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Veterans helping Veterans

Business News ( Liberty Center ) - Oct 25, 2018

Baltimore County’s Department of Economic and Workforce Development reached out to Metro Data, In'c President, Mr. Bert Orlitzky and asked if he could participate in Baltimore County's recently launched a new veteran training program called VetWorks. VetWorks is a short-term training initiative...

Baltimore Business Journal ranks Metro Data, Inc. as Top-20 "Veteran Owned Businesses"

Business News ( Hunt Valley, Maryland ) - Sep 07, 2018

The Baltimore Business Journal (BBJ) ranks Metro Data, Inc. as one of 2017's Top-20 "Veteran Owned Businesses" in the Baltimore region as published in the September 7-13, 2018 Newspaper. About the Baltimore Business JournalThe Baltimore Business Journal, where you'll find the latest...

Baltimore Business Journal ranks Metro Data, Inc. as Top-20 "Software Development" firm

Business News ( Hunt Valley, Maryland ) - Jun 29, 2018

The Baltimore Business Journal (BBJ) ranks Metro Data, Inc. as a Top-20 "Software Development" firm in the Baltimore region as published in the June 29, 2018 Newspaper. The rankings were based on 2017 revenues in the Baltimore area.About the Baltimore Business Journal:The Baltimore Busin...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18284

Security News, Business News - Jun 23, 2018

Title: Gentoo app-backup/burp privilege escalation via PID file manipulationAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commits f9cf5c23, 88b7eff0, and 5cd39164SummaryThe Gentoo app-backup/burp package gives ownership of its PID file directory to the daemon's runtime user. That can be exploited by the runtime...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18225

Security News, Business News - Apr 15, 2018

Title: Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 root privilege escalation via user-owned executablesAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commit b50a3068SummaryAll versions of the Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package allow the local unprivileged jabber user to gain root by modifying the /usr/bin/{jabberd,router,sm,c2s,s2s} exec...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2018-6536

Security News, Business News - Apr 15, 2018

Title: Icinga2 privilege escalation via PID file manipulationAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commit c6b8668 , version 2.8.2SummaryThe icinga2 daemon creates its PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root user. That may be exploited by the unprivileged user to kill root processes, since when t...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18226

Security News, Business News - Apr 15, 2018

Title: Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 privilege escalation via PID file manipulationAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commit b50a3068SummaryThe Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package gives ownership of its PID file directory to the daemon's runtime user. That can be exploited by the runtime user to kill root process...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18240

Security News, Business News - Apr 15, 2018

Title: Gentoo app-admin/collectd privilege escalation via PID file manipulationAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commit 9a70b58, version 5.7.2-r1SummaryNote: the app-admin/collectd package has been renamed to app-metrics/collectd.Learn MoreComplete details here: http://michael.orlitzky.com/cves/cve-2...

Metro Data, Inc. - Data Incident Response Team featured in Baltimore Business Journal

Business News ( Hunt Valley, Maryland ) - Mar 22, 2018

Metro Data, Inc. would like to thank the Baltimore Business Journal, and Ms. Maria Sieron, Research Director for featuring us and our Data Incident Response Team (D.I.R.T.) in the March 22, 2018 cybersecurity issue of the Journal. The following is an excerpt from the article:By Maria Sieron –...

Metro Data, Inc. now an authorized Dell EMC Partner

Business News ( Hunt Valley, Maryland ) - Feb 26, 2018

We are pleased to announce that we have received notification from Dell EMC's President of Global Channels, OEM Solutions & IoT - that Metro Data, Inc. is now formally a Dell EMC Authorized Reseller and Partner. As customers embrace digital transformation, they look for partners who f...

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