June 28, 2025
Hello all, As we close out the first half of the year, there were a number of new vulnerability and defects revealed that need attention. We must stay diligent to remediate, patch, and mitigate these issues as they arise. On…
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June 21, 2025
Hello all, Iranian cyber-criminals are among the world’s best and most effective. And with the middle eastern war now involving the United States, expect that many of these well-trained spies and thieves will become agents of chaos and destruction targeting…
June 14, 2025
Hello all, As expected, Microsoft and a cadre of other vendors unleashed updates this past week. I shouldn’t be surprised that the quantity appears to be increasing, but I am. With the concerted push for the past few years on…
June 7, 2025
Hello all, With the Patch Tuesday onslaught coming next week, I was happy to see that this was another somewhat quiet week as far as vulnerabilities and zero-day reveals are concerned. Last month I was quite wrong in my prediction…
May 31, 2025
Hello all, It seemed to me that this week was mercifully quiet on the global scale, with fewer massive holes and defects being revealed. That’s not so say that dirtbags took the week off, oh no, they already have plenty…
May 24, 2025
Hello all, It was a busy news week with a nice smattering of good news of indictments and takedowns of threat actors and their infrastructure. Pwn2Own Berlin concluded with 29 zero-days being utilized. Some have already been patched, others are…
May 17, 2025
Hello all, Along with the usual Microsoft Patch Tuesday scramble, this week brought an explosion of updates and vulnerability reveals from a lot of other vendors and products, ranging from ASUS to VMware – almost to Z. Headline NEWS: In…
May 10, 2025
Hello all, After a slow start to the week, we closed it out with a few very serious vulnerabilities made public by Cisco, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti. This coming week is Patch Tuesday and if historic numbers are a valid guide,…
May 3, 2025
Hello all, Last week was “World Password Week”. However, this year many tech giants chose, to replace “password” with “passkey”. In fact, on what was World Password Day, Microsoft announced that all new Microsoft accounts will now be passwordless, use…
April 26, 2025
Hello all, Surprisingly, it was a quiet week as far as major vulnerabilities and reveals are concerned. I suspect that the juicy stuff is being held back so that it can be revealed at the RSA conference that starts on…
April 19, 2025
Hello all, I was expecting a quieter week, but I was surprised by how many serious vulnerabilities were revealed, and about the drama surrounding MITRE and their CVE contract, spawning at least two new numbering authority prospects in response. I…
April 12, 2025
Hello all, This past week was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and several other vendors. Apparently feeling that it should be Patch Week instead of just one day, Juniper and VMware chose different days to unleash required fixes. There’s lots of…