Hello all, This week’s news has an unusual number of items related to firewalls and networking equipment. Cisco, Fortinet, and SonicWall are all under active attack for known vulnerabilities and are being exploited successfully by malactors to gain unauthorized access…
Hello all, Hurricane Milton moved ashore with a swath of renewed devastation across a large portion of Florida’s West Coast this past week, further stressing and testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans still attempting to recover from Hurricane Helene.…
Hello all, It is staggering to see that large portions of the Southeastern United States have been reduced to rubble and debris, with almost no functioning technology due to massive infrastructure damage. And those in Florida are now being warned…
Hello all, Summer is over, we are about to start the fourth quarter of the year, and we still have two weeks until Patch Tuesday. So, for many of us it should be a somewhat easier week. Unfortunately, also for…
Hello all, It was eerily quiet this week as far as critical news items and vulnerabilities are concerned, with only a few rising to that level in my mind. That was helpful, because there were a lot of other important…
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…
Hello all, This week we bid farewell to Red-N-Security News and welcome Red Dot Security News. New name, same content scoured from all over the web in the prior week, bringing commentary of items that I find of high value…
Hello all, Welcome to the Hacker Summer Camp edition of the Red-N Security Newsletter. Thank you for your patience, our team didn’t return from Las Vegas until after midnight on Monday. And there were so many vulnerabilities and news items…
Hello all, This week has been rather uncommon in how quiet it has been with the low level of major issues and announcements, unless you count Microsoft experiencing a successful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that severely impacted their…
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.…
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…
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…