Jun 20, 2026
Hello all, Last weekend a LinkedIn post alerted the world to a database of Fortinet credentials on the internet. This week it exploded into a major issue now named FortiBleed. More on that in a moment. CISA issued orders that…
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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…
June 6, 2026
Hello all, Microsoft held their Build 2026 conference this week, and there were all sorts of announcements, many revolving around Artificial Intelligence of course, with a few other interesting and surprising items such as a new category of wearable items…
April 4, 2026
Hello all, I wish you a Happy Easter and Passover. I pray that it is a peaceful and enjoyable one. If you’ve been affected by the Iran conflict, I truly feel for you. There have been some serious cyber disruptions…
March 21, 2026
Hello all, The Iran war is still dominating the news, but surprisingly, after the successful attack on Stryker Corporation, there have been no reports of other large-scale successful cyber-attacks attributed to Iranian threat actors. That’s not to say they haven’t…
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…
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 22, 2025
Hello all, You’d think that there’d be a bit less chaos a whole week after Patch Tuesday. Well, you’d be wrong. On Tuesday November 18, 2025, Cloudflare botched a routine update and took down major portions of their network and…
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 4, 2025
Hello all, This past Saturday I attended BSides St. Petersburg, Florida, not Russia. This is a local convention, aka ‘con’, that draws around 500 cyber security minded people together to network, learn, and hear from some of the most dedicated…
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…
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,…