March 7, 2026
Hello all, What a difference one week can make! Top of mind for many is the Iran conflict and the implications as it relates to cyber warfare. In a surprising first, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General…
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February 28, 2026
Hello all, Unlike the prior week, there was a lot to report on this week, starting with a brand-new way to extract your information from wireless networks, three-year old Cisco zero-day exploit, and more. The good guys had some nice…
February 21, 2026
Hello all, This week was somewhat light with almost no pants-of-fire alerts. There was one that needs quick attention, a Google Chrome zero-day that’s under active attack, and there were several CISA alerts that should be prioritized due to ongoing…
February 14, 2026
Hello all, Just like with a successful cyber-attack, the recovery time for my physical illness has been slow going. At first there seemed to be hope that there would be immediate recovery, but unfortunately the threat actor virus has been…
February 7, 2026
Hello all, The week started out rather ordinary with the usual level of malevolence and chaos inflicted on the world by cybercriminals, along with the usual proclamations of falling skies due to AI. And then my system got hit with…
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…
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…
January 17, 2026
Hello all, Another week, another Cisco headline about a zero-day, which was then eclipsed, by Fortinet with multiple products needing immediate patching due to critical defects. And of course, there’s Microsoft and the cadre of vendors that published fixes and…
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…
January 3, 2026
Hello all, Welcome to 2026. So far it has been relatively quiet, unless you’re using a specific brand of Chinese network equipment, or SmarterMail. Otherwise, it has been a steady stream of new malware, exploits, and breaches to start the…
December 27, 2025
Hello all, Christmas has passed, and the New Year is just around the corner. Based on what I’ve seen, It seems that threat actors and pen testers may have taken a bit of time off. There was significantly less news…
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,…