Tag Incident Response

August 29, 2026

Hello all, Three headline news items merit immediate attention if you have any of the products under your care; more on that in a moment. There is a lot of good news about takedowns and arrests, and unfortunately some serious…

August 22, 2026

Hello all, The week started out with the normal level of chaos, plotting, exploitation, threats, and mayhem in Pandemonium (kingdom of demons), and then Oracle unleashed their second monthly vulnerability notices and things got a bit more exciting. Mind you,…

August 15, 2026

Hello all, As expected, Patch Tuesday was quite large. Microsoft recently warned that for the foreseeable future the amount of patches, and potentially even the frequency of patch releases, would be significantly higher, and they weren’t kidding. This month brought…

July 25, 2026

Hello all, For the next two weeks, I am on vacation, or holiday as it is known on the right-side of the pond. I’m still dutifully scouring the internet for pertinent news and information, but my commentaries will be a…

July 4, 2026

Hello all, The biggest news this week, in my opinion, is the 250th birthday of The United States of America. Celebrations were held nationwide to honor and commemorate this momentous occasion. In addition, it is a three-day weekend for most…

June 27, 2026

Hello all, FortiBleed is still leaking electrons all over the place necessitating a monumental cleanup by organizations worldwide as they race to lock down their Fortinet firewalls before threat actors do more than just steal and harvest credentials. There were…

June 13, 2026

Hello all, This week has brought a patchacopalipse with a surprisingly large number of vendors releasing critical or high severity patches to plug holes and defects. Microsoft was one of the top gift-givers with 200 or more patches for Patch…

June 6, 2026

Hello all, Microsoft held their Build 2026 conference this week, and there were all sorts of announcements, many revolving around Artificial Intelligence of course, with a few other interesting and surprising items such as a new category of wearable items…

May 30, 2026

Hello all, This weekend brings an end to the first half of 2026. It seems to me to have just flown by very fast, but maybe that’s just me. Speaking of fast, quite a few sources are saying that the…

May 9, 2026

  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…

May 2, 2026

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…

April 25, 2026

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…