Tag Microsoft Defender

June 27, 2026

Hello all, FortiBleed is still leaking electrons all over the place necessitating a monumental cleanup by organizations worldwide as they race to lock down their Fortinet firewalls before threat actors do more than just steal and harvest credentials. There were…

June 13, 2026

Hello all, This week has brought a patchacopalipse with a surprisingly large number of vendors releasing critical or high severity patches to plug holes and defects. Microsoft was one of the top gift-givers with 200 or more patches for Patch…

May 2, 2026

Hello all, Another week, and another report replete with vulnerabilities, bugs, fails, defects, holes, exfiltration, compromises, phishing, breaches, hacking and exploitation. Of course there are also plenty of links to articles about patches, fixes, takedowns, arrests, sentencing, and legislation, all…

July 19, 2025

Hello all, What started out as a somewhat quiet week, with only one nasty item early on from Google Chrome, escalated slowly with the last few days bringing reveals of multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in products by Cisco, CrushFTP,…

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…

December 28, 2024

Hello all, The end is near! No, not of the world, but of the year. And what a year it has been! There are over half a dozen links that herald and decry the past year in the cyberverse as…

August 17, 2024

Hello all, I didn’t expect the massive amounts of vulnerabilities and software defects that were announced, and mostly fixed, this past week. I did expect a goodly volume, since it was Patch Tuesday, but not that many. The biggest surprise…

August 10, 2024

Hello all, Welcome to the Hacker Summer Camp edition of the Red-N Security Newsletter. Thank you for your patience, our team didn’t return from Las Vegas until after midnight on Monday. And there were so many vulnerabilities and news items…

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…

April 27, 2024

Hello all, Artificial Intelligence continues to get a bit more adroit. Vulnerabilities continue to show up. And despicable individuals continue to do their dastardly deeds. So, we continue to fight on in our battle to expose the dark underbelly of…

April 13, 2024

Hello all, Patch Palooza was how the program director dubbed the web show I participated in on Friday where we discussed the flood of patches this week brought. Microsoft unleashed patches to plug 150 vulnerabilities, two of which are zero-days.…

December 9, 2023

Hello all, There are a few rather severe items to be aware of this week, called out below. And this coming Tuesday is Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and a number of other vendors. Traditionally, December’s release has held fewer updates…