Rob Vaughn --- Software & Security

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Software Architect & Programmer, Security Specialist (CISSP/ISSA), Web Developer (founded in 1992), Team Lead / Player.

I am a seasoned, top-notch "specialist" in team-building and making company successful. I can do this by being "generalist" programmer, team lead & project manager, with years of software development; Web server and site design; integration and QA/testing; and server installation and support, and a CISSP/ISA certified Security Architect & Specialist.AND most of all, I'll do anything you need to help you succeed. Mop the floor? Sure. Learn a new programming language overnight? Yup. You name it, I will get it done. Always.

My coding philosophy: simplicity, robustness, comments / readability, and refactoring / maintainability. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, emphasizing collaboration & documentation.

Specialties:

Technical Team Lead and Project / Product Management; Business Development; Systems and Network Security, Architecture and Design; Long-term strategic technical planning for business growth needs; Software Engineering across a wide variety of hardware / platforms / OS & programming languages.

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PayPal Security Issue #1

One of a series of weaknesses in PayPal’s two-tier security system, that can lead to access of funds, or a DoS attack, given only an account and captured password, or an unclosed browser with an uncleared cache where a user has logged off.

Read here: PayPal Security Issue #1

More coming, once I get my test account unlocked.

Publishing publicly since, if I know this, best to assume many hundreds of black-hat, malicious people know it as well and are exploiting it.

The fixes are very, very easy. I hope this will goad PayPal into fixing this problem.

Saturday November 19th