January 31, 2026
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…
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December 20, 2025
Hello all, For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter starts tomorrow! And it is also the shortest day of the year. Now if your system clocks rely on the National Institute of Standards (NIST) timeservers located in Boulder,…
December 13, 2025
Hello all, As if the growing menace of the React2Shell vulnerability undergoing massive ramp-up of active attack and exploitation wasn’t enough, this past week was Patch Tuesday for the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and SAP. But wait there was more!…
December 6, 2025
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…
November 8, 2025
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…
October 4, 2025
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…
September 27, 2025
Hello all, Cisco decided to grace us with a major vulnerability, SolarWinds is trying a third time to fix a defect, ransomware is severely impacting European airports, supply chain attacks on NPM packages by worms from Dune, and Windows 25H2…
September 20, 2022
Hello all, Happy Fall! Another week of lots of excitement in our world of cyber defense. The biggest news is that Apple somehow lost versions 19 – 25 of their operating system, going right to version 26. And several firewall…
September 13, 2025
Hello all, This past week was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and a number of other vendors, when as usual, dozens and dozens of vulnerabilities and defects were announced. The clock is now ticking for threat actors to exploit them before…
August 30, 2025
Hello all, The unofficial end of summer is here – Labor Day – observed by the United States and Canada, and nothing is different in the world of cyber security. Evil people are still perpetrating their vile crimes, earning themselves…
August 23, 2025
Hello all, Perhaps it is because I’m becoming jaded to all of the incessant histrionics about the latest new zero-day vulnerability, and the patches needed to fix flaws, and threat actors scoring big yet again; but there wasn’t much that…
August 16, 2025
Hello all, I knew it would be a busy week since it was Patch Tuesday, but I didn’t know it would be this busy. Hundreds of new vulnerabilities were reported that need evaluation, prioritization, and remediation. Some of the reveals…