Hello all, What started out as a somewhat quiet week, with only one nasty item early on from Google Chrome, escalated slowly with the last few days bringing reveals of multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in products by Cisco, CrushFTP,…
Hello all, The United States of America turned 249 on Friday. Hopefully, all of our US based readers still have all of their digits and have recovered most of their hearing from the celebratory fireworks, both public and private. Speaking…
Hello all, It seemed to me that this week was mercifully quiet on the global scale, with fewer massive holes and defects being revealed. That’s not so say that dirtbags took the week off, oh no, they already have plenty…
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…
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…
(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.…
(Select here for a video version of my opening commentary) Hello all, Unless your system administrators programmed your web and email filters to block it, the news of the week has been DeepSeek AI, the gains and pitfalls of this…
(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…
Hello all, Last week I wrote about the unbelievable onslaught of CVEs that we must deal with. This week Microsoft hit us with the largest list of defect updates since 2017! Other vendors that are on the same patch cadence…
Hello all, It has been a busy news week with quite a few critical items, some of which are already being exploited. One item that jumped out at me was a report from Guru Baran, the co-founder of Cyber Security…
Hello all, Despite the upcoming winter break, the news does not sleep. There was a lot of activity in the prior week that was interesting, disturbing, and some was even delighting. So, let’s get to the cyber news. As usual,…
Hello all, Patch Tuesday didn’t disappoint this past week. Hundreds of flaws, defects, and vulnerabilities had fixes proffered by their respective vendors and developers as holiday gifts to already overworked defenders. According to Tenable, Microsoft alone has lobbed 1,009 security…