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…
Hello all, I wish you a Happy Easter and Passover. I pray that it is a peaceful and enjoyable one. If you’ve been affected by the Iran conflict, I truly feel for you. There have been some serious cyber disruptions…
Hello all, Whether it was because threat actors were attending RSAC in San Francisco this week, or because those that would be reporting cyber-attacks and such a were away, there seemed to me to be a lower number of reports…
Hello all, The Iran war is still dominating the news, but surprisingly, after the successful attack on Stryker Corporation, there have been no reports of other large-scale successful cyber-attacks attributed to Iranian threat actors. That’s not to say they haven’t…
Hello all, Last week I’d noted that I was surprised that there had been no evident cyber-retaliatory attacks by Iranian threat actors. Welp, on Wednesday a threat group named Handala claimed a successful attack on Stryker, a USA based global…
Hello all, What a difference one week can make! Top of mind for many is the Iran conflict and the implications as it relates to cyber warfare. In a surprising first, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General…
Hello all, Unlike the prior week, there was a lot to report on this week, starting with a brand-new way to extract your information from wireless networks, three-year old Cisco zero-day exploit, and more. The good guys had some nice…
Hello all, The week started out rather ordinary with the usual level of malevolence and chaos inflicted on the world by cybercriminals, along with the usual proclamations of falling skies due to AI. And then my system got hit with…