Tag Microsoft

May 24, 2025

Hello all, It was a busy news week with a nice smattering of good news of indictments and takedowns of threat actors and their infrastructure. Pwn2Own Berlin concluded with 29 zero-days being utilized. Some have already been patched, others are…

May 17, 2025

Hello all, Along with the usual Microsoft Patch Tuesday scramble, this week brought an explosion of updates and vulnerability reveals from a lot of other vendors and products, ranging from ASUS to VMware – almost to Z. Headline NEWS: In…

May 10, 2025

Hello all, After a slow start to the week, we closed it out with a few very serious vulnerabilities made public by Cisco, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti. This coming week is Patch Tuesday and if historic numbers are a valid guide,…

May 3, 2025

Hello all, Last week was “World Password Week”. However, this year many tech giants chose, to replace “password” with “passkey”. In fact, on what was World Password Day, Microsoft announced that all new Microsoft accounts will now be passwordless, use…

April 26, 2025

Hello all, Surprisingly, it was a quiet week as far as major vulnerabilities and reveals are concerned. I suspect that the juicy stuff is being held back so that it can be revealed at the RSA conference that starts on…

April 19, 2025

Hello all, I was expecting a quieter week, but I was surprised by how many serious vulnerabilities were revealed, and about the drama surrounding MITRE and their CVE contract, spawning at least two new numbering authority prospects in response. I…

April 12, 2025

Hello all, This past week was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and several other vendors. Apparently feeling that it should be Patch Week instead of just one day, Juniper and VMware chose different days to unleash required fixes. There’s lots of…

April 5, 2025

Hello all, Apache had a bad week with two vulnerabilities, the first in Parquet, and the second in Tomcat. Ivanti has another zero-day, Apple updated a lot of items, CrushFTP has some drama going on, and Microsoft celebrated 50 years.…

March 22, 2025

(For a video version of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Unlike last week’s patch-release frenzy, things dropped back to our normal harried pace this week. We did receive warnings about some pretty nasty defects from the likes of…

March 15, 2025

(For a video version of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Patch Tuesday from Microsoft and others came in with the March winds and left us a bit of a mess. Microsoft has six zero-days and six critical updates.…

March 8, 2025

(Click here for a video version of the introduction) Hello all, Microsoft continued to have some sporadic issues this past week, but nowhere near as widespread as they had the prior weekend. Hopefully, by the time this makes it to…