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…
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July 27, 2024
Hello all, After the rather grueling CrowdStrike incident that started a week ago on Friday for many in the IT industry, I’m sure that they were happy to see that the latter half of this past week was somewhat calm.…
July 20, 2024
Hello all, It started out as a normal week with a few critical updates, and the normal onslaught of attacks, vulnerability reveals, and good-guy victories. Then Friday came. If you’ve been on vacation, or oblivious to the news, in the…
July 6, 2024
Hello all, This coming Tuesday is Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and others. Expect some time-sensitive incoming items that will need to be prioritized. Don’t just knee-jerk respond to the latest thing making news, make sure that you evaluate the actual…
June 29, 2024
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…
May 25, 2024
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…
May 18, 2024
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…
April 6, 2024
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…
March 9, 2024
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…
February 24, 2024
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…
January 13, 2024
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…
January 6, 2024
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…