Hello all, Last week was “World Password Week”. However, this year many tech giants chose, to replace “password” with “passkey”. In fact, on what was World Password Day, Microsoft announced that all new Microsoft accounts will now be passwordless, use…
Hello all, Surprisingly, it was a quiet week as far as major vulnerabilities and reveals are concerned. I suspect that the juicy stuff is being held back so that it can be revealed at the RSA conference that starts on…
Hello all, I was expecting a quieter week, but I was surprised by how many serious vulnerabilities were revealed, and about the drama surrounding MITRE and their CVE contract, spawning at least two new numbering authority prospects in response. I…
Hello all, This past week was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and several other vendors. Apparently feeling that it should be Patch Week instead of just one day, Juniper and VMware chose different days to unleash required fixes. There’s lots of…
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Hello all, Apache had a bad week with two vulnerabilities, the first in Parquet, and the second in Tomcat. Ivanti has another zero-day, Apple updated a lot of items, CrushFTP has some drama going on, and Microsoft celebrated 50 years.…
(For a video version of my introductory comments, click here.) Hello all, This has been an interesting week with the variety of severe vulnerabilities reported, and the types and numbers of breached or compromised organizations, some of which are massive.…
(For a video version of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Unlike last week’s patch-release frenzy, things dropped back to our normal harried pace this week. We did receive warnings about some pretty nasty defects from the likes of…
(Click here for a video version of the introduction) Hello all, Microsoft continued to have some sporadic issues this past week, but nowhere near as widespread as they had the prior weekend. Hopefully, by the time this makes it to…
(For a video of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Last week didn’t bring us too many surprises. DeepSeek’s AI model is proving to be effective, but their security and AI guardrails have been demonstrated to be practically nonexistent.…
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,…
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…