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…
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July 27, 2024
Hello all, After the rather grueling CrowdStrike incident that started a week ago on Friday for many in the IT industry, I’m sure that they were happy to see that the latter half of this past week was somewhat calm.…
July 20, 2024
Hello all, It started out as a normal week with a few critical updates, and the normal onslaught of attacks, vulnerability reveals, and good-guy victories. Then Friday came. If you’ve been on vacation, or oblivious to the news, in the…
July 13, 2024
Hello all, As expected, Patch Tuesday’s offerings were prolific. Adobe, Fortinet, a large number of Industrial Control System (ICS / OT) vendors, Mozilla, Microsoft, Netgear, Palo Alto, VMware, and more released updates and patches this week to address flaws and…
July 6, 2024
Hello all, This coming Tuesday is Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and others. Expect some time-sensitive incoming items that will need to be prioritized. Don’t just knee-jerk respond to the latest thing making news, make sure that you evaluate the actual…
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 27, 2024
Hello all, Artificial Intelligence continues to get a bit more adroit. Vulnerabilities continue to show up. And despicable individuals continue to do their dastardly deeds. So, we continue to fight on in our battle to expose the dark underbelly of…
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 13, 2024
Hello all, Patch Palooza was how the program director dubbed the web show I participated in on Friday where we discussed the flood of patches this week brought. Microsoft unleashed patches to plug 150 vulnerabilities, two of which are zero-days.…
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 16, 2024
Hello all, Patch Tuesday came and as expected, was not as bad as prior months. Yet there are still plenty of things to address, so make sure you check what is needed in your environment. This week we have interesting…
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…