Tag SolarWinds

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 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…

November 22, 2025

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…

September 27, 2025

Hello all, Cisco decided to grace us with a major vulnerability, SolarWinds is trying a third time to fix a defect, ransomware is severely impacting European airports, supply chain attacks on NPM packages by worms from Dune, and Windows 25H2…

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…

February 17, 2024

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,…

April 29, 2023

Hello all,On the heels of the RSA conference, there is a significant amount of news this week with a good number of vulnerabilities and bugs being patched and holes being plugged. As usual, the Red-N Weekly Cyber Security News newsletter…