October 19, 2024
Hello all, Microsoft unleashed Windows 11 version 24H2 a couple of weeks ago. If you’ve held off installing, that was probably a wise move. The number of defects that are popping up like prairie dogs seems to be increasing each…
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October 12, 2024
Hello all, Hurricane Milton moved ashore with a swath of renewed devastation across a large portion of Florida’s West Coast this past week, further stressing and testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans still attempting to recover from Hurricane Helene.…
August 31, 2024
Hello all, For those is the USA, I pray that you’ve returned from the long holiday weekend refreshed and did not discover a poorly written note on your computers advising you that your company has been subjected to a post-paid…
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…
June 8, 2024
Hello all, Another A to Z week in this issue, starting with a little firestorm from Adobe, and ending with patches for EoL network attached storage services by Zyxel. I was thinking that it would be a somewhat quiet week,…
April 20, 2024
Hello all, This week was blissfully quiet in comparison to last week’s flood of items that screamed for attention. Note the in comparison… there are still plenty of vulnerabilities, reveals, patches, and interesting news items, and if your enterprise is…
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 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…
March 2, 2024
Hello all, This was a quieter week after the digital blizzard of news from the prior one However, there is still plenty to know about, be concerned about, and even fret about. And as always there are moments of sunshine…
February 17, 2024
Hello all, Just in time for Valentine’s Day the cyber community received a generous helping of “love” in the form of software updates and firmware patches on Patch Tuesday this past week. And, as I predicted in our last newsletter,…
February 3, 2024
Hello all, Two weeks ago, I wrote that if you can’t immediately mitigate Ivanti VPN vulnerabilities, shut it off. It would appear that I was rather prophetic. More on that momentarily. The Federal Burau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that they…
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…