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…
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…
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…
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…
Hello all, The news was somewhat light this week, meaning that the number of critical items seems low to me. But we’ve still got plenty for you to read about, so onward. The volume of news and other can appear…
Hello all, Patch Tuesday was about as expected with Microsoft releasing their set of updates and fixes. What is interesting is that an increasing number of other vendors appear to be adopting the same cadence. Time will tell if this…
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…
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.…
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…
Hello all, This was a quieter week after the digital blizzard of news from the prior one However, there is still plenty to know about, be concerned about, and even fret about. And as always there are moments of sunshine…
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…
Hello all, Just in time for Valentine’s Day the cyber community received a generous helping of “love” in the form of software updates and firmware patches on Patch Tuesday this past week. And, as I predicted in our last newsletter,…