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, Microsoft unleashed Windows 11 version 24H2 a couple of weeks ago. If you’ve held off installing, that was probably a wise move. The number of defects that are popping up like prairie dogs seems to be increasing each…
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, 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, Thankfully, this week has been somewhat low in major vulnerability and attack reveals. There are still enough, and if a product or service that you use is mentioned in our lists below, then to your organization it is…
Hello all, This week was the relative calm before the storm, as Tuesday is Patch Tuesday from Adobe, Microsoft and many other vendors. Even with the relative calm, there is still plenty to know about. So, on to the news.…
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…
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…
Hello all, This has been an interesting news-cycle week. An inordinate amount of electrons have been devoted to reporting about the Middle Kingdom’s activities and citizens. China is under scrutiny for an assortment of cyber-attacks and fear is growing regarding…
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…
Hello all, This week saw several shadows of potential digital apocalypse spread across the cyberverse. AT&T triggered a meltdown in cellular traffic, the Chinese had a major leak exposing some of their activity, LockBit Ransomware group was unplugged, and ConnectWise’s…
Hello all, Just in time for Valentine’s Day the cyber community received a generous helping of “love” in the form of software updates and firmware patches on Patch Tuesday this past week. And, as I predicted in our last newsletter,…