Hello all, This week was somewhat light with almost no pants-of-fire alerts. There was one that needs quick attention, a Google Chrome zero-day that’s under active attack, and there were several CISA alerts that should be prioritized due to ongoing…
Hello all, The week started out rather ordinary with the usual level of malevolence and chaos inflicted on the world by cybercriminals, along with the usual proclamations of falling skies due to AI. And then my system got hit with…
Hello all, With most of the nation now firmly embraced in Winter’s ferocious icy grip, including longtime bastion of warmth, Florida, now engulfed in frigid air, it is a good time to find a toasty place to sit back and…
Hello all, Cisco had a bad week, first with an actively exploited flaw in ISE, and then a switch and router boot loop due to a DNS bug . CISA went nostalgic on us and alerted to a PowerPoint flaw…
Hello all, Welcome to 2026. So far it has been relatively quiet, unless you’re using a specific brand of Chinese network equipment, or SmarterMail. Otherwise, it has been a steady stream of new malware, exploits, and breaches to start the…
Hello all, What started out as a quiet week was rudely interrupted on Wednesday by a major vulnerability reveal in React Server Components. More on that in a moment. Headline NEWS: In Ransomware, Malware, and Vulnerabilities News: In Other News…
Hello all, To my United States’ audience, welcome back after a long and hopefully uneventful weekend. I pray that it was good and restful. To all of us, welcome to December. The past week seemed to be a bit quieter,…
Hello all, This week had so many critical and high value vulnerabilities that it didn’t make sense to list them all in the headline news section, so make sure that you check out the full list of links to see…
Hello All, I’ve been on vacation this week and away from the studio, so this video is going to be quite different from the usual report. Here are some notable items from last week to be aware of. And there’s…
Hello all, A popular axiom in computing circles is, “It’s always DNS.” On Monday it became painfully real for much of the internet as Amazon Web Services (AWS) US-East-1 zone fell victim to a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue and…
Hello all, This past Saturday I attended BSides St. Petersburg, Florida, not Russia. This is a local convention, aka ‘con’, that draws around 500 cyber security minded people together to network, learn, and hear from some of the most dedicated…
Hello all, This past week was busy, even into the weekend, with reports of hundreds of companies compromised via Salesloft Drift, Microsoft being forced to reroute traffic stemming from several Red Sea cables being cut, Google dodging a bullet in…