November 29, 2025
Hello all, To my United States’ audience, welcome back after a long and hopefully uneventful weekend. I pray that it was good and restful. To all of us, welcome to December. The past week seemed to be a bit quieter,…
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August 23, 2025
Hello all, Perhaps it is because I’m becoming jaded to all of the incessant histrionics about the latest new zero-day vulnerability, and the patches needed to fix flaws, and threat actors scoring big yet again; but there wasn’t much that…
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…
May 31, 2025
Hello all, It seemed to me that this week was mercifully quiet on the global scale, with fewer massive holes and defects being revealed. That’s not so say that dirtbags took the week off, oh no, they already have plenty…
March 29, 2025
(For a video version of my introductory comments, click here.) Hello all, This has been an interesting week with the variety of severe vulnerabilities reported, and the types and numbers of breached or compromised organizations, some of which are massive.…
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.…
October 12, 2024
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.…
September 2, 2023
Hello all, For those of you in the United States, happy Labor Day weekend! May the computer muses smile on you during this extra day off and may your systems continue to hum along without you. As usual, the complete…
September 30, 2022
Two Zero-Day Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities without a patch are being exploited – mitigation steps published Microsoft Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Critical Remote Hack Flaws Found in Dataprobe’s Power Distribution Units WhatsApp 0-Day Bug Let…
September 9, 2022
QNAP patches zero-day used in new Deadbolt ransomware attacks Interpol and local Police dismantled an Asian Sextortion ring Zyxel has released patches for NAS products affected by a format string vulnerability HP fixes severe Privilege Escalation bug in pre-installed HP…