Hello all, I didn’t expect the massive amounts of vulnerabilities and software defects that were announced, and mostly fixed, this past week. I did expect a goodly volume, since it was Patch Tuesday, but not that many. The biggest surprise…
Hello all, Welcome to the Hacker Summer Camp edition of the Red-N Security Newsletter. Thank you for your patience, our team didn’t return from Las Vegas until after midnight on Monday. And there were so many vulnerabilities and news items…
Hello all, This week has been rather uncommon in how quiet it has been with the low level of major issues and announcements, unless you count Microsoft experiencing a successful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that severely impacted their…
Hello all, After the rather grueling CrowdStrike incident that started a week ago on Friday for many in the IT industry, I’m sure that they were happy to see that the latter half of this past week was somewhat calm.…
Hello all, It started out as a normal week with a few critical updates, and the normal onslaught of attacks, vulnerability reveals, and good-guy victories. Then Friday came. If you’ve been on vacation, or oblivious to the news, in the…
Hello all, As expected, Patch Tuesday’s offerings were prolific. Adobe, Fortinet, a large number of Industrial Control System (ICS / OT) vendors, Mozilla, Microsoft, Netgear, Palo Alto, VMware, and more released updates and patches this week to address flaws and…
Hello all, This coming Tuesday is Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and others. Expect some time-sensitive incoming items that will need to be prioritized. Don’t just knee-jerk respond to the latest thing making news, make sure that you evaluate the actual…
Hello all, The unfolding tragedy of CDK Global continues to dominate both the tech and automotive news as automobile and truck dealerships across North America have been forced to regress two decades and resort to manual, analog methods of conducting…
Hello all, The news was somewhat light this week, meaning that the number of critical items seems low to me. But we’ve still got plenty for you to read about, so onward. The volume of news and other can appear…
Hello all, Patch Tuesday was about as expected with Microsoft releasing their set of updates and fixes. What is interesting is that an increasing number of other vendors appear to be adopting the same cadence. Time will tell if this…
Hello all, Another A to Z week in this issue, starting with a little firestorm from Adobe, and ending with patches for EoL network attached storage services by Zyxel. I was thinking that it would be a somewhat quiet week,…
Hello all, We’ve got stuff from Amazon to Zscaler this week consisting of some amazing new things, some seriously bad things, and a couple of massive wins for the good guys making worldwide cyber headlines, so read on. The volume…