CybersecKyle
CybersecKyle
Kyle
I love everything tech. You can check out more about me on my website. I blog about cybersecurity, technology trends, and best practices in IT. I even share the occasional tech review every now and then.
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OverviewThis week did not leave much room for leisurely patch testing. Attackers are already chaining MikroTik RouterOS flaws to take over internet-exposed routers, Microsoft fixed two Windows privilege-escalation bugs under active...
N-able has released four N-central hotfixes in five weeks.The latest, N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4, fixes CVE-2026-86218: a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability rated 10.0 under CVSS 4.0. N-able says every version before...
I have spent the past few days using OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra across the kind of work I normally do: research, code, troubleshooting, and security analysis. What stands out is not one clever answer, but how long Astra can stay with a...
The past two weeks got away from me. We found a new house, moved almost immediately, and have been trying to get settled ever since, so I decided to combine Weeks 35 and 36 into one post.The vibeWhiplashed, exhausted, and...
OverviewThis week put exposed edge systems, trusted login paths, and internet-facing business software back at the front of the queue. SonicWall and Sangoma confirmed exploitation against remote-access and phone-system products, Google...
I spent most of this weekend moving, so Friday’s edition slipped past me. I am publishing it late rather than pretending the week was quiet.OverviewPaperCut and NetScaler both moved into active-exploitation territory, Next.js shipped...
It has been a while since I updated this page, and quite a bit has happened since the last one. I am still writing about security and working in the MSP world. Outside of that, I have spent a lot of time on self-hosting, physical media,...
Part 4 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series closes the series by turning one verified lab observation into work an owner can understand, schedule, fix, and retest.A scanner...
On July 31, N-able detected a threat actor exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in N-central. By August 1, the company had published guidance. Hotfix 1 arrived on August 2. Continued monitoring found a related attack path, so...
The vibeDrained, proud, and ready for a cold front.I did not feel like myself for much of the week, but I still had a few things I was genuinely happy about. I am hoping the sick feeling passes soon and Texas remembers that summer does...
Part 3 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series examines what a lab target reveals before authentication and how its identity controls respond to a small, authorized set of failed...
This is a little outside the kind of thing I normally write about here, but I have been following the discussion around MacStories returning to Twitter/X over the last couple of days, and I kept finding myself thinking about it.Federico...
OverviewThis week, the most important stories were not subtle. CISA moved two Windows bugs and an MLflow flaw up the priority list because attackers are already using them. Zimbra admins also got an active-exploitation warning, while...
Part 2 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses a controlled message to test email authentication, filtering, reporting, and response without collecting a real credential or turning...
Picture a fairly ordinary MSP automation project. The first version reads an incoming support ticket and produces a summary for the technician. It saves a little time, touches one source of information, and cannot change anything. Then...