Tag Threat

February 4, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: An interesting report from cybernews has named Cybercrime the world’s third largest economy, behind the USA and China – absolutely mind-boggling! “Based on data from…

January 21, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: I miss the internet of waiting for interminable long downloads to finish, cat videos, and busy signals while you redialed your 19.2k modem hoping for…

January 14, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts. Notable Callouts: Being on the internet is like shopping in a Guatemalan Mercado. There are amazing things to see, smell, hear, and even taste – with great deals to…

December 31, 2022

Hello all,The final Red-N Weekly Security newsletter for 2022 is below the notable callouts from this week.Notable Callouts: Cybersecurity protection is a continual game of whack-a-mole. Threat actors are continually popping up in new locations, via new holes and methods,…

November 19, 2022

Hello all, A few of the notable call-out’s from this week’s report (found below this introduction) are: I just read an interesting article that said Turkeys are notoriously difficult to hunt. They are well camouflaged and are “the smartest and…

October 15, 2022

Microsoft October 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes two zero-days, 1 used in attacks, 84 flaws, 13 of which are critical The October 2022 Exchange SUs do not contain fixes for the zero-day vulnerabilities reported on September 29, 2022 Windows 11 KB5018427…

October 8, 2022

Fortinet warns admins to patch critical auth bypass bug immediately Updated information: Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Steam Gaming Phish Showcases Browser-in-Browser Threat ‘IT security issue’ impacts multiple hospitals across several states Microsoft investigates Windows…

September 16, 2022

Microsoft September 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day used in attacks, 63 flaws Windows 10 Update KB5017308 causes issues when creating/copying files via GPO Microsoft issues critical security updates as PCs attacked through zero-day flaw Microsoft issues patch for serious security…

September 9, 2022

QNAP patches zero-day used in new Deadbolt ransomware attacks Interpol and local Police dismantled an Asian Sextortion ring Zyxel has released patches for NAS products affected by a format string vulnerability HP fixes severe Privilege Escalation bug in pre-installed HP…

September 2, 2022

64% of Businesses Suspect They’ve Been Targeted or Impacted by Nation-State Attacks US House appropriators want to fund more than $15 billion for cybersecurity Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server – major cloud hosts excluded New licensing benefits…

August 19, 2022

Microsoft’s Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery New macOS 12.5.1 and iOS 15.6.1 updates patch “actively exploited” vulnerabilities Microsoft will turn off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Internet Explorer and EdgeHTML on September 13 Exploit out for…

August 5, 2022

VMware urges admins to patch critical auth bypass bug immediately Cisco fixes critical remote code execution bug in VPN routers Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks Critical RCE Bug Could Let Hackers Remotely Take Over DrayTek…