April 4, 2026
Hello all, I wish you a Happy Easter and Passover. I pray that it is a peaceful and enjoyable one. If you’ve been affected by the Iran conflict, I truly feel for you. There have been some serious cyber disruptions…
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March 14, 2026
Hello all, Last week I’d noted that I was surprised that there had been no evident cyber-retaliatory attacks by Iranian threat actors. Welp, on Wednesday a threat group named Handala claimed a successful attack on Stryker, a USA based global…
March 7, 2026
Hello all, What a difference one week can make! Top of mind for many is the Iran conflict and the implications as it relates to cyber warfare. In a surprising first, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General…
January 17, 2026
Hello all, Another week, another Cisco headline about a zero-day, which was then eclipsed, by Fortinet with multiple products needing immediate patching due to critical defects. And of course, there’s Microsoft and the cadre of vendors that published fixes and…
December 27, 2025
Hello all, Christmas has passed, and the New Year is just around the corner. Based on what I’ve seen, It seems that threat actors and pen testers may have taken a bit of time off. There was significantly less news…
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 6, 2025
Hello all, This past week was busy, even into the weekend, with reports of hundreds of companies compromised via Salesloft Drift, Microsoft being forced to reroute traffic stemming from several Red Sea cables being cut, Google dodging a bullet in…
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…
August 16, 2025
Hello all, I knew it would be a busy week since it was Patch Tuesday, but I didn’t know it would be this busy. Hundreds of new vulnerabilities were reported that need evaluation, prioritization, and remediation. Some of the reveals…
August 2, 2025
Hello all, Most of last week was quiet with a steady rumble of Microsoft sourced phishing emails growing in popularity, and then toward the latter part of the week Arctic Wolf and Huntress warned about a concerning increase in successful…
July 26, 2025
Hello all, Last week I warned about a new zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint on-premises that had just become public knowledge. It escalated quickly, not necessarily with threat actor activity, but with news articles and cyber professionals everywhere urging action. With…