Hello all, The unfolding tragedy of CDK Global continues to dominate both the tech and automotive news as automobile and truck dealerships across North America have been forced to regress two decades and resort to manual, analog methods of conducting…
Hello all, The news was somewhat light this week, meaning that the number of critical items seems low to me. But we’ve still got plenty for you to read about, so onward. The volume of news and other can appear…
Hello all, Thankfully, this week has been somewhat low in major vulnerability and attack reveals. There are still enough, and if a product or service that you use is mentioned in our lists below, then to your organization it is…
Hello all, Last week I called it the calm before the storm, boy was it ever! A large swath of vendors released updates for all sorts of vulnerabilities this week. I’ll call some out below but recommend that you check…
Hello all, This past week most of the world took notice of Andres Freund, a mild-manner programmer who single-handedly saved the internet. No joke. He found a supply-chain attack that was in process of being stealthily slipped into millions of…
Hello all, Patch Tuesday came and as expected, was not as bad as prior months. Yet there are still plenty of things to address, so make sure you check what is needed in your environment. This week we have interesting…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hello all, Happy first week of 2024! Thankfully, the digital apocalypse did not happen over the Christmas and New Years’ holiday period. Yet there are still plenty of news items relating to Cyber Security out there that were reported in…
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…