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April 26, 2025

Hello all, Surprisingly, it was a quiet week as far as major vulnerabilities and reveals are concerned. I suspect that the juicy stuff is being held back so that it can be revealed at the RSA conference that starts on…

April 19, 2025

Hello all, I was expecting a quieter week, but I was surprised by how many serious vulnerabilities were revealed, and about the drama surrounding MITRE and their CVE contract, spawning at least two new numbering authority prospects in response. I…

April 12, 2025

Hello all, This past week was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft and several other vendors. Apparently feeling that it should be Patch Week instead of just one day, Juniper and VMware chose different days to unleash required fixes. There’s lots of…

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.…

March 29, 2025

(For a video version of my introductory comments, click here.) Hello all, This has been an interesting week with the variety of severe vulnerabilities reported, and the types and numbers of breached or compromised organizations, some of which are massive.…

March 22, 2025

(For a video version of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Unlike last week’s patch-release frenzy, things dropped back to our normal harried pace this week. We did receive warnings about some pretty nasty defects from the likes of…

March 8, 2025

(Click here for a video version of the introduction) Hello all, Microsoft continued to have some sporadic issues this past week, but nowhere near as widespread as they had the prior weekend. Hopefully, by the time this makes it to…

March 1, 2025

For a video version of the introduction below, click here. Hello all, This past Saturday, much of the world experienced Microsoft service disruptions. Big Redmond has now restored services, blaming the failure on a code change saying that they’ve “reverted…

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…

February 15, 2025

(Select here for a video version of my introductory comments from below) Hello all, Patch Tuesday came in with only a small bang this month with 4 zero days, two of which are under active exploitation, and 55 flaws. A…

February 8, 2025

(For a video of the introduction below, click here) Hello all, Last week didn’t bring us too many surprises. DeepSeek’s AI model is proving to be effective, but their security and AI guardrails have been demonstrated to be practically nonexistent.…

January 25, 2025

(Select here for a video version of my opening commentary) Hello all, After Microsoft’s record-breaking number of defect and flaw patches last week, I figured that this week we’d be safe from onslaught. Was I ever wrong! Oracle decided to…