May 10, 2025
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,…
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May 3, 2025
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…
April 26, 2025
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…
April 19, 2025
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…
April 12, 2025
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…
April 5, 2025
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.…
March 29, 2025
(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.…
March 22, 2025
(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…
February 8, 2025
(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.…
February 1, 2025
(Select here for a video version of my opening commentary) Hello all, Unless your system administrators programmed your web and email filters to block it, the news of the week has been DeepSeek AI, the gains and pitfalls of this…
January 25, 2025
(Select here for a video version of my opening commentary) Hello all, After Microsoft’s record-breaking number of defect and flaw patches last week, I figured that this week we’d be safe from onslaught. Was I ever wrong! Oracle decided to…
January 11, 2025
Hello all, It has been a busy news week with quite a few critical items, some of which are already being exploited. One item that jumped out at me was a report from Guru Baran, the co-founder of Cyber Security…