January 31, 2026
Hello all, With most of the nation now firmly embraced in Winter’s ferocious icy grip, including longtime bastion of warmth, Florida, now engulfed in frigid air, it is a good time to find a toasty place to sit back and…
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January 10, 2026
Hello all, Cisco had a bad week, first with an actively exploited flaw in ISE, and then a switch and router boot loop due to a DNS bug . CISA went nostalgic on us and alerted to a PowerPoint flaw…
December 20, 2025
Hello all, For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter starts tomorrow! And it is also the shortest day of the year. Now if your system clocks rely on the National Institute of Standards (NIST) timeservers located in Boulder,…
November 15, 2025
Hello all, This week had so many critical and high value vulnerabilities that it didn’t make sense to list them all in the headline news section, so make sure that you check out the full list of links to see…
October 11, 2025
Hello all, This was not a good week for some of the major players in the industry. Microsoft had portions, if not their entire network, go down several times, Oracle E-Business suite came under attack, SonicWall’s recent breach got worse,…
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 6, 2025
Hello all, This past week was busy, even into the weekend, with reports of hundreds of companies compromised via Salesloft Drift, Microsoft being forced to reroute traffic stemming from several Red Sea cables being cut, Google dodging a bullet in…
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…
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…
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.…
February 22, 2025
(For a video version of the introduction below, go to my LinkedIn post.) Hello all, This was somewhat of an interstitial week with less headline defects and vulnerabilities, but it was balanced by plenty of other news items. Some of…
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…