Hello all, The week started out with the normal level of chaos, plotting, exploitation, threats, and mayhem in Pandemonium (kingdom of demons), and then Oracle unleashed their second monthly vulnerability notices and things got a bit more exciting. Mind you,…
Hello all, As expected, Patch Tuesday was quite large. Microsoft recently warned that for the foreseeable future the amount of patches, and potentially even the frequency of patch releases, would be significantly higher, and they weren’t kidding. This month brought…
Hello all, My vacation ends this weekend. It has been nice to unplug to some degree, but as you’ve noticed, I always keep the shields up and stay abreast of cyber-happenings. There were a few important ones this past week,…
Hello all, For the past week, the only time I’ve used my electronic work-related tools has been to peruse news reports for inclusion into this report, to curate the links, and to write this summary. That’s not to say that…
Hello all, The biggest news this week, in my opinion, is the 250th birthday of The United States of America. Celebrations were held nationwide to honor and commemorate this momentous occasion. In addition, it is a three-day weekend for most…
Hello all, FortiBleed is still leaking electrons all over the place necessitating a monumental cleanup by organizations worldwide as they race to lock down their Fortinet firewalls before threat actors do more than just steal and harvest credentials. There were…
Hello all, Last weekend a LinkedIn post alerted the world to a database of Fortinet credentials on the internet. This week it exploded into a major issue now named FortiBleed. More on that in a moment. CISA issued orders that…
Hello all, Microsoft held their Build 2026 conference this week, and there were all sorts of announcements, many revolving around Artificial Intelligence of course, with a few other interesting and surprising items such as a new category of wearable items…
Hello all, As usual, this week held lots of announcements of vulnerabilities, malware, breaches, new interesting things, and of course, AI advances. A few items stood out, such as Cisco hitting the headline news for the third week in a…
Hello all, This week brought another round of fun updates from Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, and others with Patch Tuesday releases. Immediately following Microsoft’s patch releases, a hacker who I shall dub Dirtbag Eclipse, released two new zero-day exploits, one of…
Hello all, It has been another busy week. The biggest headline news item is that my birthday is on Sunday. No, actually it is the Instructure Canvas hack by Shiny Hunters. These dirtbags managed to download a massive trove…
Hello all, Since the month started on Wednesday, it has seemed like a long time since there was a major release of patches and updates. Never fear, your wait is over! Adobe, Apache, Cisco, Microsoft, PHP, SAP, Splunk and…