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, Another week, and another report replete with vulnerabilities, bugs, fails, defects, holes, exfiltration, compromises, phishing, breaches, hacking and exploitation. Of course there are also plenty of links to articles about patches, fixes, takedowns, arrests, sentencing, and legislation, all…
Hello all, While there were plenty of cyber related news articles to read this week, there weren’t many new major vulnerability announcements. But there were a few. Google patched for two high-risk defects, Microsoft had to release an emergency update…
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, 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, This week was somewhat light with almost no pants-of-fire alerts. There was one that needs quick attention, a Google Chrome zero-day that’s under active attack, and there were several CISA alerts that should be prioritized due to ongoing…
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…
Hello all, With most of the nation now firmly embraced in Winter’s ferocious icy grip, including longtime bastion of warmth, Florida, now engulfed in frigid air, it is a good time to find a toasty place to sit back and…
Hello all, This week’s headliners have a threepeat from Cisco and Fortinet. For three weeks in a row, they’ve managed to top the list of actively exploited items needing fixes. Way to go? And there’s lots more from plenty of…