Tech Tidbit – The endgame plan for Windows 10

“This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end.” -Jim Morrison of The Doors October 14, 2025, marks the end of the line for our tried-and-true, stable, and generally “good enough” Windows 10 OS. Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10 have proven to be very stable OSes that we haven’t had […]

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CSI Tech Talk I January 2023 – Recording Available

Tech Tidbits – Scott’s updates on security, updates, and industry news since we last got together. Harden your endpoints as part of your overall security plan – We talk about patching constantly. However, recent ransomware attack post-mortem analysis has shown that there are a number of free, and mostly easy endpoint configuration changes you can quickly make to […]

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Using CPGs in Real Life – Patching

Everyone knows the adage “No one is perfect”. Unfortunately for anyone with a computer network, the bad actors who want to infiltrate your system are ready to take full advantage of any mistake they can find. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) knows this, as they called out CPG 1.E (Mitigate Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) in […]

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US-CERT – Vulnerability Summary for the Week of May 8, 2017

The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) / United States Computer Emergency […]

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Apple Releases Security Updates

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker may exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for the following products and apply the necessary updates: macOS Sierra, Security Updates(link is external) iOS(link is external) […]

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