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September 6, 2024

Hello all, Most of us in the United States celebrated Labor Day, and the unofficial end of Summer with a much-deserved day off from work. It was a welcome respite to enjoy the company of friends, family, and if you…

August 31, 2024

Hello all, For those is the USA, I pray that you’ve returned from the long holiday weekend refreshed and did not discover a poorly written note on your computers advising you that your company has been subjected to a post-paid…

August 24, 2024

Hello all, This week we bid farewell to Red-N-Security News and welcome Red Dot Security News. New name, same content scoured from all over the web in the prior week, bringing commentary of items that I find of high value…

July 27, 2024

Hello all, After the rather grueling CrowdStrike incident that started a week ago on Friday for many in the IT industry, I’m sure that they were happy to see that the latter half of this past week was somewhat calm.…

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…

July 13, 2024

Hello all, As expected, Patch Tuesday’s offerings were prolific. Adobe, Fortinet, a large number of Industrial Control System (ICS / OT) vendors, Mozilla, Microsoft, Netgear, Palo Alto, VMware, and more released updates and patches this week to address flaws and…

June 29, 2024

Hello all, The unfolding tragedy of CDK Global continues to dominate both the tech and automotive news as automobile and truck dealerships across North America have been forced to regress two decades and resort to manual, analog methods of conducting…

May 11, 2024

Hello all, This week was the relative calm before the storm, as Tuesday is Patch Tuesday from Adobe, Microsoft and many other vendors. Even with the relative calm, there is still plenty to know about. So, on to the news.…

April 27, 2024

Hello all, Artificial Intelligence continues to get a bit more adroit. Vulnerabilities continue to show up. And despicable individuals continue to do their dastardly deeds. So, we continue to fight on in our battle to expose the dark underbelly of…

April 13, 2024

Hello all, Patch Palooza was how the program director dubbed the web show I participated in on Friday where we discussed the flood of patches this week brought. Microsoft unleashed patches to plug 150 vulnerabilities, two of which are zero-days.…

April 6, 2024

Hello all, This past week most of the world took notice of Andres Freund, a mild-manner programmer who single-handedly saved the internet. No joke. He found a supply-chain attack that was in process of being stealthily slipped into millions of…

March 30, 2024

Hello all, This has been an interesting news-cycle week. An inordinate amount of electrons have been devoted to reporting about the Middle Kingdom’s activities and citizens. China is under scrutiny for an assortment of cyber-attacks and fear is growing regarding…