Blain Smith

Security Research Engineer

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About Blain Smith

Blain Smith is a Security Research Engineer at runZero. He spent most of his career in cloud and distributed systems for AAA gaming, entertainment, and networking working on some of the most popular games and systems millions of people play and watch daily. He has given numerous talks at conferences such as TEDx, GopherCon, and P99CONF. His shift into infosec has afforded him the ability to apply his distributed systems and networking knowledge to other industries such as IoT and OT.

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runZero Hour: Episode 8

The latest insights (and opinions!) on the impending US ban of Kaspersky products, the FBI's warning for threats against the renewable energy...

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How to find Siemens devices on your network

Siemens has disclosed a vulnerability in their SIMATIC S7-200 SMART Devices. Here's how to find potentially affected devices on your network.

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How to find Citrix NetScaler ADCs and Gateways

A new vulnerability was disclosed in NetScaler ADC and Gateway products for version 13.1-50.23.

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How to find Johnson Controls Software House iStar Pro Door Controller devices on your network

Johnson Controls disclosed a vulnerability in their House iStar Pro Door Controller devices. See how to find it with runZero.

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How to find Uniview NVR301-04S2-P4 devices

Uniview has disclosed a vulnerability in their NVR301-04S2-P4 product. See how to find it with runZero.

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runZero Hour: Episode 5

On this episode, the runZero Research team dives into some hot topics including the XZ Utils Backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) and expert analysis of the...

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How to find Rockwell Automation devices

Rockwell Automation has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in their products. Here's how to find potentially vulnerable devices.

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How to find Palo Alto Network firewalls running PAN-OS 11.1, 11.0, and 10.2

Palo Alto Networks disclosed that versions of their PAN-OS software have a vulnerability allowing for remote command injection. Here's how to find...

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How to find outdated lighttpd services

Outdated versions of the open source lighttpd web server are vulnerable to a handful of security vulnerabilities

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How to find D-Link NAS Storage devices

D-Link has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in their D-Link NAS Storage products. Here's how to find potentially impacted devices.

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How to find Cisco IOS & IOS-XE devices

Cisco Systems has disclosed 14 vulnerabilities in their devices which run Cisco IOS & IOS XE software. Here's how to find potentially vulnerable...

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How to find Automation Direct C-MORE EA9 HMI devices

Automation Direct has disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in their C-MORE EA9 HMI product. Here's how to find potentially vulnerable devices.