Tag APT

December 7, 2024

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…

November 16, 2024

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…

October 26, 2024

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…

August 24, 2024

Hello all, This week we bid farewell to Red-N-Security News and welcome Red Dot Security News. New name, same content scoured from all over the web in the prior week, bringing commentary of items that I find of high value…

July 13, 2024

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…

June 29, 2024

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…

April 6, 2024

Hello all, This past week most of the world took notice of Andres Freund, a mild-manner programmer who single-handedly saved the internet. No joke. He found a supply-chain attack that was in process of being stealthily slipped into millions of…

March 30, 2024

Hello all, This has been an interesting news-cycle week. An inordinate amount of electrons have been devoted to reporting about the Middle Kingdom’s activities and citizens. China is under scrutiny for an assortment of cyber-attacks and fear is growing regarding…

March 23, 2024

Weekly Cyber Security NewsNews Events and Information Gathered from sources found on the web in the past seven days Hello all, It was a less eventful week for most of us with few major reveals and problems from the cyberverse.…

March 9, 2024

Hello all, This coming week is Patch Tuesday. Expectations are that this will be a normal release without any major revelations. However, Microsoft already gave us a big surprise with news of Russian state-sponsored threat actors, yet again breaching their…

February 10, 2024

Hello all, Ivanti is still in the news, a 5th major VPN vulnerability was disclosed this week. I’m not a software writer, but to me it appears that there are some underlying fundamental flaws that may be fueling these discoveries.…

January 27, 2024

Hello all, This week Microsoft made our headline news an inordinate number of times, read on for details. The volume of news and other can appear overwhelming, the best strategy is to read the Notable Callouts below and then skim the full…