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…
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…
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…
Hello all, As if the growing menace of the React2Shell vulnerability undergoing massive ramp-up of active attack and exploitation wasn’t enough, this past week was Patch Tuesday for the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and SAP. But wait there was more!…
Hello all, What started out as a quiet week was rudely interrupted on Wednesday by a major vulnerability reveal in React Server Components. More on that in a moment. Headline NEWS: In Ransomware, Malware, and Vulnerabilities News: In Other News…
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,…
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…
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…
Hello All, I’ve been on vacation this week and away from the studio, so this video is going to be quite different from the usual report. Here are some notable items from last week to be aware of. And there’s…
Hello all, Last week I excoriated Amazon for their spectacular day-long failure. This past week, Microsoft decided it was their turn and because of a self-inflicted Domain Name System (DNS) issue, major portions of their network were inaccessible. At least…
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…
Hello all, It was a busy week for cyber vulnerabilities. Microsoft and a host of others unleashed their Patch Tuesday lists, CISA alerted on Adobe and F5, and Fortinet plugged severe holes, as did Ivanti and Veeam. Headline NEWS: In…
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,…