November 29, 2025
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,…
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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…
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…
November 8, 2025
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…
November 1, 2025
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…
October 25, 2025
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…
October 18, 2025
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…
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…
September 20, 2022
Hello all, Happy Fall! Another week of lots of excitement in our world of cyber defense. The biggest news is that Apple somehow lost versions 19 – 25 of their operating system, going right to version 26. And several firewall…
September 13, 2025
Hello all, This past week was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and a number of other vendors, when as usual, dozens and dozens of vulnerabilities and defects were announced. The clock is now ticking for threat actors to exploit them before…
August 30, 2025
Hello all, The unofficial end of summer is here – Labor Day – observed by the United States and Canada, and nothing is different in the world of cyber security. Evil people are still perpetrating their vile crimes, earning themselves…
August 23, 2025
Hello all, Perhaps it is because I’m becoming jaded to all of the incessant histrionics about the latest new zero-day vulnerability, and the patches needed to fix flaws, and threat actors scoring big yet again; but there wasn’t much that…