Hello all, Despite the upcoming winter break, the news does not sleep. There was a lot of activity in the prior week that was interesting, disturbing, and some was even delighting. So, let’s get to the cyber news. As usual, my commentary is followed by a plethora of links to other…
Hello all, Patch Tuesday didn’t disappoint this past week. Hundreds of flaws, defects, and vulnerabilities had fixes proffered by their respective vendors and developers as holiday gifts to already overworked defenders. According to Tenable, Microsoft alone has lobbed 1,009 security bugs at us so far this year – and the year…
Hello all, It has been a busy week with security related news. The Chinese hack into telecommunication providers continues to dominate, with government agencies urging everyone to use encrypted messaging and communication apps and processes due to the depth and breadth of ongoing Chinese espionage. Whitehouse Deputy National Security Adviser, Anne…
Hello all, The Internet killed Black Friday for me! (For those of you not based in the USA, Black Friday is a huge shopping day right after the Thanksgiving Day holiday). I used to collect newspaper fliers, circle store opening times, plan my driving route, map out where my quarry was…
Hello all, I was rather pleased to notice that there are at least twelve links in this week’s edition that talk about wins by the defenders, and even some by our AI friends. Some of the larger news items to note are a tsunami of announcements from Microsoft from their Ignite…
Hello all, Tuesday saw the monthly cavalcade of patches to fix bugs, defects and flaws from a good number of vendors. Additionally, this past week saw a significant quantity of non-scheduled warnings and updates. If you’re thinking that there seems to be an ever-increasing slew of these being pushed out, you’re…
Hello all, This past week has some nice wins from the cyber-defenders; 41 arrests of evil people, with more coming, over 22,000 malicious servers taken offline, the person responsible for the Snowflake breach behind bars, and scores of Nigerian scammers extradited and now serving lengthy prison sentences. Unfortunately, cyber criminals are…
Hello all, Thankfully the US quadrennial election cycle is nearly finished. The incessant and continual droning of half-truths, outright lies, click-bait email and advertisements, deep-fakes, fear and doubt mongering, deceptive text messages, and just downright evil that has been so prevalent is alarming. And that’s just the threat actors that we…
Hello all, This week’s news has an unusual number of items related to firewalls and networking equipment. Cisco, Fortinet, and SonicWall are all under active attack for known vulnerabilities and are being exploited successfully by malactors to gain unauthorized access to networks. Once there, they then use other products’ vulnerabilities and…
Hello all, Microsoft unleashed Windows 11 version 24H2 a couple of weeks ago. If you’ve held off installing, that was probably a wise move. The number of defects that are popping up like prairie dogs seems to be increasing each day. I list quite a few in our Other News Events…
Hello all, Hurricane Milton moved ashore with a swath of renewed devastation across a large portion of Florida’s West Coast this past week, further stressing and testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans still attempting to recover from Hurricane Helene. It is three days after landfall and power is still out…
The Red Dot Security News publication will likely be impacted by Hurricane Milton as I live in the Tampa Bay area. I will attempt to publish on schedule if I have internet and power. But, I didn’t want to leave you wondering why nothing has appeared if I miss this weekend…