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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 9, 2024

Hello all, This coming week is Patch Tuesday. Expectations are that this will be a normal release without any major revelations. However, Microsoft already gave us a big surprise with news of Russian state-sponsored threat actors, yet again breaching their…

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…

January 13, 2024

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…

January 6, 2024

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…

December 30, 2023

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…

December 23, 2023

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.…

November 25, 2023

Hello all, While the flurry of notices from Patch Tuesday are now behind us, vulnerabilities, patches, exploits, and other tech excitement continues. OpenAI made headlines for themselves and Microsoft for much of the week with Sam Altman news. The dust…

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…

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…