Tag Exfiltration

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…

March 2, 2024

Hello all, This was a quieter week after the digital blizzard of news from the prior one However, there is still plenty to know about, be concerned about, and even fret about. And as always there are moments of sunshine…

February 24, 2024

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…

January 27, 2024

Hello all, This week Microsoft made our headline news an inordinate number of times, read on for details. The volume of news and other can appear overwhelming, the best strategy is to read the Notable Callouts below and then skim the full…

January 13, 2024

Hello all, Patch Tuesday was huge this month. Even if you don’t see a notice from your particular vendor of choice, it would be prudent to check for updates. A large portion of the major software vendors had updates, as…

December 30, 2023

Hello all, Congratulations Cyber Warrior! You’ve made it to the end of another year. It has been a daunting one with a massive AI-fueled upswing in phishing, smishing, malvertising, hacking, cracking, encrypting, DDoSing, stealing and destruction. Experts are sadly predicting…

December 9, 2023

Hello all, There are a few rather severe items to be aware of this week, called out below. And this coming Tuesday is Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and a number of other vendors. Traditionally, December’s release has held fewer updates…

November 25, 2023

Hello all, While the flurry of notices from Patch Tuesday are now behind us, vulnerabilities, patches, exploits, and other tech excitement continues. OpenAI made headlines for themselves and Microsoft for much of the week with Sam Altman news. The dust…

November 11, 2023

Hello all, Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States, and Armistice Day in much of the world, marking the end of World War Two, on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month. Hostilities officially ceased…

November 4, 2023

Hello all, Happy November all! This week was somewhat quiet until Cisco threw out a bunch of vulnerability updates. There are quite a few other significant and interesting items, so let’s get to them. The volume of news and other…

October 28, 2023

Hello all, This cyber week has been a somewhat normal one with the usual warnings, updates, and reports of activity by horrible people that deserve a toasty spot in hell. There are some neat new things as well, so let’s…

October 21, 2023

Hello all, There were no earth-shattering vulnerability or patch reports this week for a change. Although Oracle comes close to hitting that criterion with 387 patches this week, more on that in a moment. As usual, the complete Red-N Weekly…