Hello all, This week saw several shadows of potential digital apocalypse spread across the cyberverse. AT&T triggered a meltdown in cellular traffic, the Chinese had a major leak exposing some of their activity, LockBit Ransomware group was unplugged, and ConnectWise’s rapid action stopped the death of western culture as we know…
Hello all, Just in time for Valentine’s Day the cyber community received a generous helping of “love” in the form of software updates and firmware patches on Patch Tuesday this past week. And, as I predicted in our last newsletter, there is a lot to know about and prioritize. Some are…
Hello all, Ivanti is still in the news, a 5th major VPN vulnerability was disclosed this week. I’m not a software writer, but to me it appears that there are some underlying fundamental flaws that may be fueling these discoveries. Hopefully, for Ivanti’s sake, they get this figured out before clients…
Hello all, Two weeks ago, I wrote that if you can’t immediately mitigate Ivanti VPN vulnerabilities, shut it off. It would appear that I was rather prophetic. More on that momentarily. The Federal Burau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that they are outnumbered 50 to 1 by China’s hacker army, and that…
Hello all, This week Microsoft made our headline news an inordinate number of times, read on for details. The volume of news and other can appear overwhelming, the best strategy is to read the Notable Callouts below and then skim the full list of linked news item titles that follow for things that…
Hello all, There are quite a number of things to report on this week. It has been a busy one. Poor Ivanti is still in the news. I’m starting to feel sorry for them. Anyway, let’s move on. The volume of news and other can appear overwhelming, the best strategy is…
Hello all, Patch Tuesday was huge this month. Even if you don’t see a notice from your particular vendor of choice, it would be prudent to check for updates. A large portion of the major software vendors had updates, as did a number of IOT/OT manufacturers. And there are some zero-days…
Hello all, Happy first week of 2024! Thankfully, the digital apocalypse did not happen over the Christmas and New Years’ holiday period. Yet there are still plenty of news items relating to Cyber Security out there that were reported in the past seven days, some tragic, some comical, some that just…
Hello all, Congratulations Cyber Warrior! You’ve made it to the end of another year. It has been a daunting one with a massive AI-fueled upswing in phishing, smishing, malvertising, hacking, cracking, encrypting, DDoSing, stealing and destruction. Experts are sadly predicting that 2024 will not fare much better. However, there is hope.…
Hello all, Welcome to the penultimate edition of the Red-N Weekly Cyber Security News for 2023. While not an extreme week, there have been a few large newsworthy items along with the usual morass of evil people doing nefarious things. The volume of news and other can appear overwhelming, the best…
