September 28, 2024
Hello all, Summer is over, we are about to start the fourth quarter of the year, and we still have two weeks until Patch Tuesday. So, for many of us it should be a somewhat easier week. Unfortunately, also for…
Hello all, Summer is over, we are about to start the fourth quarter of the year, and we still have two weeks until Patch Tuesday. So, for many of us it should be a somewhat easier week. Unfortunately, also for…
Hello all, It was eerily quiet this week as far as critical news items and vulnerabilities are concerned, with only a few rising to that level in my mind. That was helpful, because there were a lot of other important…
Hello all, Another Patch the Defects, Flaws, Vulnerabilities, and Bugs Day is behind us. There were a lot of issues revealed, with fixes for most of them proffered. Some that I consider to be noteworthy are listed below. As usual,…
Hello all, Most of us in the United States celebrated Labor Day, and the unofficial end of Summer with a much-deserved day off from work. It was a welcome respite to enjoy the company of friends, family, and if you…
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…
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, 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…