February 1, 2025
(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…
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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…
January 18, 2025
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…
January 11, 2025
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…
December 21, 2024
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,…
December 14, 2024
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…
November 16, 2024
Hello all, Tuesday saw the monthly cavalcade of patches to fix bugs, defects and flaws from a good number of vendors. Additionally, this past week saw a significant quantity of non-scheduled warnings and updates. If you’re thinking that there seems…
October 26, 2024
Hello all, This week’s news has an unusual number of items related to firewalls and networking equipment. Cisco, Fortinet, and SonicWall are all under active attack for known vulnerabilities and are being exploited successfully by malactors to gain unauthorized access…
October 19, 2024
Hello all, Microsoft unleashed Windows 11 version 24H2 a couple of weeks ago. If you’ve held off installing, that was probably a wise move. The number of defects that are popping up like prairie dogs seems to be increasing each…
October 12, 2024
Hello all, Hurricane Milton moved ashore with a swath of renewed devastation across a large portion of Florida’s West Coast this past week, further stressing and testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans still attempting to recover from Hurricane Helene.…
October 5, 2024
Hello all, It is staggering to see that large portions of the Southeastern United States have been reduced to rubble and debris, with almost no functioning technology due to massive infrastructure damage. And those in Florida are now being warned…
September 28, 2024
Hello all, Summer is over, we are about to start the fourth quarter of the year, and we still have two weeks until Patch Tuesday. So, for many of us it should be a somewhat easier week. Unfortunately, also for…