Hello all, The biggest news this week, in my opinion, is the 250th birthday of The United States of America. Celebrations were held nationwide to honor and commemorate this momentous occasion. In addition, it is a three-day weekend for most Americans, so hopefully your defenses were ready since threat actors love…
Hello all, FortiBleed is still leaking electrons all over the place necessitating a monumental cleanup by organizations worldwide as they race to lock down their Fortinet firewalls before threat actors do more than just steal and harvest credentials. There were several excellent takedowns by Operation Endgame and some other good news…
Hello all, Last weekend a LinkedIn post alerted the world to a database of Fortinet credentials on the internet. This week it exploded into a major issue now named FortiBleed. More on that in a moment. CISA issued orders that several products needed to be patched by Sunday June 21, 2026.…
Hello all, This week has brought a patchacopalipse with a surprisingly large number of vendors releasing critical or high severity patches to plug holes and defects. Microsoft was one of the top gift-givers with 200 or more patches for Patch Tuesday, 3 of which are classified as zero-days. I’ll round them…
Hello all, Microsoft held their Build 2026 conference this week, and there were all sorts of announcements, many revolving around Artificial Intelligence of course, with a few other interesting and surprising items such as a new category of wearable items debuting, a new Majorana Quantum chip, and a new Windows command…
Hello all, This weekend brings an end to the first half of 2026. It seems to me to have just flown by very fast, but maybe that’s just me. Speaking of fast, quite a few sources are saying that the amount and frequency of new vulnerabilities appearing is definitely rising. On…
Hello all, As usual, this week held lots of announcements of vulnerabilities, malware, breaches, new interesting things, and of course, AI advances. A few items stood out, such as Cisco hitting the headline news for the third week in a row with yet another vulnerability, UniFi Ubiquiti with five new critical…
Hello all, This week brought another round of fun updates from Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, and others with Patch Tuesday releases. Immediately following Microsoft’s patch releases, a hacker who I shall dub Dirtbag Eclipse, released two new zero-day exploits, one of which I’ll cover in a bit more detail in a moment,…
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Hello all, It has been another busy week. The biggest headline news item is that my birthday is on Sunday. No, actually it is the Instructure Canvas hack by Shiny Hunters. These dirtbags managed to download a massive trove of data from nearly 9,000 schools. This hit right as students…
Hello all, Another week, and another report replete with vulnerabilities, bugs, fails, defects, holes, exfiltration, compromises, phishing, breaches, hacking and exploitation. Of course there are also plenty of links to articles about patches, fixes, takedowns, arrests, sentencing, and legislation, all related to cyber security and our digital world. Artificial intelligence continues…
Hello all, While there were plenty of cyber related news articles to read this week, there weren’t many new major vulnerability announcements. But there were a few. Google patched for two high-risk defects, Microsoft had to release an emergency update for .NET for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and Oracle blessed us…