December 27, 2025
Hello all, Christmas has passed, and the New Year is just around the corner. Based on what I’ve seen, It seems that threat actors and pen testers may have taken a bit of time off. There was significantly less news…
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December 20, 2025
Hello all, For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter starts tomorrow! And it is also the shortest day of the year. Now if your system clocks rely on the National Institute of Standards (NIST) timeservers located in Boulder,…
July 19, 2025
Hello all, What started out as a somewhat quiet week, with only one nasty item early on from Google Chrome, escalated slowly with the last few days bringing reveals of multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in products by Cisco, CrushFTP,…
June 7, 2025
Hello all, With the Patch Tuesday onslaught coming next week, I was happy to see that this was another somewhat quiet week as far as vulnerabilities and zero-day reveals are concerned. Last month I was quite wrong in my prediction…
November 30, 2024
Hello all, The Internet killed Black Friday for me! (For those of you not based in the USA, Black Friday is a huge shopping day right after the Thanksgiving Day holiday). I used to collect newspaper fliers, circle store opening…
November 9, 2024
Hello all, This past week has some nice wins from the cyber-defenders; 41 arrests of evil people, with more coming, over 22,000 malicious servers taken offline, the person responsible for the Snowflake breach behind bars, and scores of Nigerian scammers…
September 28, 2024
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…
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…