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April 6, 2024

Hello all, This past week most of the world took notice of Andres Freund, a mild-manner programmer who single-handedly saved the internet. No joke. He found a supply-chain attack that was in process of being stealthily slipped into millions of…

March 30, 2024

Hello all, This has been an interesting news-cycle week. An inordinate amount of electrons have been devoted to reporting about the Middle Kingdom’s activities and citizens. China is under scrutiny for an assortment of cyber-attacks and fear is growing regarding…

March 16, 2024

Hello all, Patch Tuesday came and as expected, was not as bad as prior months. Yet there are still plenty of things to address, so make sure you check what is needed in your environment. This week we have interesting…

February 24, 2024

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…

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 4, 2023

Hello all, Happy November all! This week was somewhat quiet until Cisco threw out a bunch of vulnerability updates. There are quite a few other significant and interesting items, so let’s get to them. The volume of news and other…

October 14, 2023

Hello all, The big news this week was Patch Tuesday with many vendors releasing updates. Then unfathomable horror shocked the civilized world as we heard reports of women and children being targeted in inhuman barbaric attacks in Israel… Our thoughts…

September 23, 2023

Hello all, After the flurry of vulnerability announcements and patch releases last week, this one has been a welcome respite, unless you have any of the affected products in our Notable Callouts. This week, Microsoft will be introducing a goodly…

July 22, 2023

Hello all, The Red-N Weekly Cyber Security News newsletter Notable Callouts are below. As usual, the complete weekly report is below the introduction. Don’t forget, our site,  also has searchable archives of past newsletters. Notable Callouts: Electronic calendars, organizers, and assistants are truly…

July 15, 2023

Hello all, The Red-N Weekly Cyber Security News newsletter Notable Callouts are below. It has been a whirlwind of vulnerabilities and patches this past week with a nice A to Z ranging from Adobe to Zune – yes, Zune. Read on. And,…