Tag BlackHat

May 4, 2024

Hello all, It was a lighter news cycle this week, but there was still a good deal to read and digest. Microsoft, after taking a severe bruising from the Cyber Safety Review Board, has pledged to make Security their number…

February 17, 2024

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,…

November 18, 2023

Hello all, Patch-mageddon happened this past week – Adobe, AMD, Fortinet, Intel, Microsoft, VMware, and others, released patches for fixes and vulnerabilities in their products. The sheer volume is a tad overwhelming, and as we’re seeing, it is showing no…

August 19, 2023

Hello all, I anticipated a slew of vulnerability and exploit reveals to be published last week. While there was a smattering, the floodgates opened this week as the various attendees and reporters of Black Hat, DefCon, and BSidesLV have now…

August 5, 2023

Hello all, It has been a surprisingly busy week as far as news items are concerned. The next two weeks should prove to be even busier. Hacker Summer Camp starts next week in Las Vegas, NV. There are three separate…

October 8, 2022

Fortinet warns admins to patch critical auth bypass bug immediately Updated information: Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Steam Gaming Phish Showcases Browser-in-Browser Threat ‘IT security issue’ impacts multiple hospitals across several states Microsoft investigates Windows…

August 26, 2022

Microsoft shares workarounds for broken audio on Windows 10 after KB5015878 Cookie theft threat: When multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not enough CISA is warning of high-severity PAN-OS DDoS flaw used in attacks LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder –…

August 19, 2022

Microsoft’s Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery New macOS 12.5.1 and iOS 15.6.1 updates patch “actively exploited” vulnerabilities Microsoft will turn off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Internet Explorer and EdgeHTML on September 13 Exploit out for…