Tag cisco

July 19, 2025

Hello all, What started out as a somewhat quiet week, with only one nasty item early on from Google Chrome, escalated slowly with the last few days bringing reveals of multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in products by Cisco, CrushFTP,…

July 5, 2025

Hello all, The United States of America turned 249 on Friday. Hopefully, all of our US based readers still have all of their digits and have recovered most of their hearing from the celebratory fireworks, both public and private. Speaking…

June 28, 2025

Hello all, As we close out the first half of the year, there were a number of new vulnerability and defects revealed that need attention. We must stay diligent to remediate, patch, and mitigate these issues as they arise. On…

June 21, 2025

Hello all, Iranian cyber-criminals are among the world’s best and most effective. And with the middle eastern war now involving the United States, expect that many of these well-trained spies and thieves will become agents of chaos and destruction targeting…

June 7, 2025

Hello all, With the Patch Tuesday onslaught coming next week, I was happy to see that this was another somewhat quiet week as far as vulnerabilities and zero-day reveals are concerned. Last month I was quite wrong in my prediction…

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,…

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…

March 15, 2025

(For a video version of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Patch Tuesday from Microsoft and others came in with the March winds and left us a bit of a mess. Microsoft has six zero-days and six critical updates.…

March 8, 2025

(Click here for a video version of the introduction) Hello all, Microsoft continued to have some sporadic issues this past week, but nowhere near as widespread as they had the prior weekend. Hopefully, by the time this makes it to…

March 1, 2025

For a video version of the introduction below, click here. Hello all, This past Saturday, much of the world experienced Microsoft service disruptions. Big Redmond has now restored services, blaming the failure on a code change saying that they’ve “reverted…

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.…