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February 14, 2026

Hello all, Just like with a successful cyber-attack, the recovery time for my physical illness has been slow going. At first there seemed to be hope that there would be immediate recovery, but unfortunately the threat actor virus has been…

January 24, 2026

Hello all, This week’s headliners have a threepeat from Cisco and Fortinet. For three weeks in a row, they’ve managed to top the list of actively exploited items needing fixes. Way to go? And there’s lots more from plenty of…

January 17, 2026

Hello all, Another week, another Cisco headline about a zero-day, which was then eclipsed, by Fortinet with multiple products needing immediate patching due to critical defects. And of course, there’s Microsoft and the cadre of vendors that published fixes and…

January 10, 2026

Hello all, Cisco had a bad week, first with an actively exploited flaw in ISE, and then a switch and router boot loop due to a DNS bug . CISA went nostalgic on us and alerted to a PowerPoint flaw…

January 3, 2026

Hello all, Welcome to 2026. So far it has been relatively quiet, unless you’re using a specific brand of Chinese network equipment, or SmarterMail. Otherwise, it has been a steady stream of new malware, exploits, and breaches to start the…

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,…

November 15, 2025

Hello all, This week had so many critical and high value vulnerabilities that it didn’t make sense to list them all in the headline news section, so make sure that you check out the full list of links to see…

November 8, 2025

Hello All, I’ve been on vacation this week and away from the studio, so this video is going to be quite different from the usual report. Here are some notable items from last week to be aware of. And there’s…

November 1, 2025

Hello all, Last week I excoriated Amazon for their spectacular day-long failure. This past week, Microsoft decided it was their turn and because of a self-inflicted Domain Name System (DNS) issue, major portions of their network were inaccessible. At least…

October 25, 2025

Hello all, A popular axiom in computing circles is, “It’s always DNS.” On Monday it became painfully real for much of the internet as Amazon Web Services (AWS) US-East-1 zone fell victim to a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue and…

October 11, 2025

Hello all, This was not a good week for some of the major players in the industry. Microsoft had portions, if not their entire network, go down several times, Oracle E-Business suite came under attack, SonicWall’s recent breach got worse,…

September 27, 2025

Hello all, Cisco decided to grace us with a major vulnerability, SolarWinds is trying a third time to fix a defect, ransomware is severely impacting European airports, supply chain attacks on NPM packages by worms from Dune, and Windows 25H2…