Hello all, What started out as a somewhat quiet week, with only one nasty item early on from Google Chrome, escalated slowly with the last few days bringing reveals of multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in products by Cisco, CrushFTP,…
Hello all, Wow, another Patch Tuesday for the records! Microsoft offered up fixes for 137 flaws, with at least one zero-day in the mix. Adobe patched 58 vulnerabilities across multiple products, Ivanti plugged more holes, Fortinet patched just about everything…
Hello all, The United States of America turned 249 on Friday. Hopefully, all of our US based readers still have all of their digits and have recovered most of their hearing from the celebratory fireworks, both public and private. Speaking…
Hello all, As we close out the first half of the year, there were a number of new vulnerability and defects revealed that need attention. We must stay diligent to remediate, patch, and mitigate these issues as they arise. On…
Hello all, It seemed to me that this week was mercifully quiet on the global scale, with fewer massive holes and defects being revealed. That’s not so say that dirtbags took the week off, oh no, they already have plenty…
Hello all, After a slow start to the week, we closed it out with a few very serious vulnerabilities made public by Cisco, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti. This coming week is Patch Tuesday and if historic numbers are a valid guide,…
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, 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…
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 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…
For a video version of the introduction below, click here. Hello all, This past Saturday, much of the world experienced Microsoft service disruptions. Big Redmond has now restored services, blaming the failure on a code change saying that they’ve “reverted…