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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…

September 20, 2022

Hello all, Happy Fall! Another week of lots of excitement in our world of cyber defense. The biggest news is that Apple somehow lost versions 19 – 25 of their operating system, going right to version 26. And several firewall…

August 23, 2025

Hello all, Perhaps it is because I’m becoming jaded to all of the incessant histrionics about the latest new zero-day vulnerability, and the patches needed to fix flaws, and threat actors scoring big yet again; but there wasn’t much that…

August 16, 2025

Hello all, I knew it would be a busy week since it was Patch Tuesday, but I didn’t know it would be this busy. Hundreds of new vulnerabilities were reported that need evaluation, prioritization, and remediation. Some of the reveals…

August 9, 2025

Hello all, Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas has now concluded. There were quite a few new vulnerabilities and security gaps revealed, along with a nice quantity of new and interesting products. Expect that the next couple of weeks will…

August 2, 2025

Hello all, Most of last week was quiet with a steady rumble of Microsoft sourced phishing emails growing in popularity, and then toward the latter part of the week Arctic Wolf and Huntress warned about a concerning increase in successful…

July 26, 2025

Hello all, Last week I warned about a new zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint on-premises that had just become public knowledge. It escalated quickly, not necessarily with threat actor activity, but with news articles and cyber professionals everywhere urging action. With…

July 12, 2025

Hello all, Wow, another Patch Tuesday for the records! Microsoft offered up fixes for 137 flaws, with at least one zero-day in the mix. Adobe patched 58 vulnerabilities across multiple products, Ivanti plugged more holes, Fortinet patched just about everything…

July 5, 2025

Hello all, The United States of America turned 249 on Friday. Hopefully, all of our US based readers still have all of their digits and have recovered most of their hearing from the celebratory fireworks, both public and private. Speaking…

June 28, 2025

Hello all, As we close out the first half of the year, there were a number of new vulnerability and defects revealed that need attention. We must stay diligent to remediate, patch, and mitigate these issues as they arise. On…