September 6, 2024
Hello all, Most of us in the United States celebrated Labor Day, and the unofficial end of Summer with a much-deserved day off from work. It was a welcome respite to enjoy the company of friends, family, and if you…
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August 24, 2024
Hello all, This week we bid farewell to Red-N-Security News and welcome Red Dot Security News. New name, same content scoured from all over the web in the prior week, bringing commentary of items that I find of high value…
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…
June 29, 2024
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…
June 22, 2024
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…
June 15, 2024
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…
May 18, 2024
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…
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.…
April 6, 2024
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…
March 2, 2024
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…