The Advisory
Outages, scams, patches and hot takes. Ideally before a user forwards it to you.
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Exploited this week: 10 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s KEV list (26 Oct to 1 Nov 2026)
None of the 10 are Microsoft. The first federal deadline is 29 October 2026.
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Support ending soon: November 2026 end-of-life roundup
9 releases lose support in the next 90 days, from .NET 8 (LTS).
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Exploited this week: 8 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s KEV list (19 Oct to 25 Oct 2026)
None of the 8 are Microsoft. The first federal deadline is 23 October 2026.
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Exploited this week: 9 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s KEV list (12 Oct to 18 Oct 2026)
1 of the 9 is Microsoft. The first federal deadline is 16 October 2026.
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October 2026 Patch Tuesday: 1408 fixes, 78 Critical, 1 exploited
October 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixed 1408 vulnerabilities, 78 of them Critical. 1 was already being exploited.
Read the full story: October 2026 Patch Tuesday: 1408 fixes, 78 Critical, 1 exploited
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Exploited this week: 5 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s KEV list (5 Oct to 11 Oct 2026)
None of the 5 are Microsoft. The first federal deadline is 11 October 2026.
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Exploited this week: 6 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s KEV list (28 Sep to 4 Oct 2026)
None of the 6 are Microsoft. The first federal deadline is 2 October 2026.
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The QR code is just a link you cannot read
A QR code is a web address drawn as a square. You cannot read it, so you cannot judge it, and that is exactly why attackers…
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Support ending soon: October 2026 end-of-life roundup
11 releases lose support in the next 90 days, from Microsoft Office 2021.
Read the full story: Support ending soon: October 2026 end-of-life roundup
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Exploited this week: 12 vulnerabilities added to CISA’s KEV list (21 Sep to 27 Sep 2026)
1 of the 12 is Microsoft. The first federal deadline is 24 September 2026.
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Two weeks on Omarchy with Claude. I set it up wrong, and that was the lesson.
I started using Omarchy Linux alongside Windows, and working side by side with Claude. Most of what went wrong in the first two weeks was not…
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You said no to the prompt. They got in anyway.
MFA stops most account takeovers, and attackers have noticed. This month researchers opened up a phishing service that walked past MFA at 258 organizations, and the…
Read the full story: You said no to the prompt. They got in anyway.
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