Fortinet PSIRT Countermeasures: Pre-Auth Bugs Trusted Hosts Won’t Stop
Manny FernandezNo fluff. Just the config that works. Fortinet's November 10, 2026 PSIRT release dropped 88 advisories in one day. Most...
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FortiGate IKEv2 Certificate Pinning: Machine Certificate Plus EAP-MSCHAPv2 Remote Access VPN
Manny FernandezPin a device certificate to your IKEv2 dial-up tunnel, then make the user prove who they are with EAP-MSCHAPv2. PKI...
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Malware in 2026: A Practitioner’s Field Guide to the Types You Will Actually See
Manny FernandezInfostealers, ransomware, loaders, RATs, worms, botnets, wipers, EDR killers, mobile NFC relay, and the first LLM-in-the-loop families. What each one...
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Meraki CVE-2026-76463: Find and Patch Every Affected Device
Manny FernandezCisco Meraki Security Hardening Release, October 2026: the access control bundle, what adjacent means for your network, and how to...
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Chrome CVE-2026-11660: New Tab Page Sandbox Escape, Verify and Enforce the Patch
Manny FernandezNO FLUFF. JUST THE CONFIG THAT WORKS. Chrome CVE-2026-11660 is a sandbox escape in the New Tab Page, rated 8.3...
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eMudhra Certificate Compromise: What Broke and How to Clean Up Your Trust Stores
Manny FernandezINFOSECMONKEY | NO FLUFF. JUST THE CONFIG THAT WORKS. eMudhra Certificate Compromise: What Broke and How to Clean Up Your...
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CVE-2026-19868: SonicWall SAML MFA Bypass on SSLVPN, Patch and Hunt Guide
Manny FernandezCVE-2026-19868: SonicWall SAML MFA Bypass on SSLVPN, Patch and Hunt Guide InfoSecMonkey | No fluff. Just the config that works....
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nmap Companion Tools: The Command-Line Ecosystem That Reads Your Scans
Manny Fernandeznmap Companion Tools: The Command-Line Ecosystem That Reads Your Scans No fluff. Just the config that works. Executive Summary nmap...
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OpenSSH *sshole (CVE-2026-123158): Find, Patch and Lock Down Alpine sshd
Manny FernandezNo fluff. Just the config that works. Objective: The OpenSSH *sshole bug (CVE-2026-123158) lets anyone who can reach port 22...
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Spanning Tree Protocol Explained: STP vs RSTP vs MSTP (with FortiSwitch Config)
Manny FernandezSpanning Tree Protocol Explained: STP vs RSTP vs MSTP (with FortiSwitch Config) No fluff. Just the config that works. Executive...
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FortiClient ZTNA Connection Refused on macOS: When pf Answers for the Server
Manny FernandezNo fluff. Just the config that works. Executive Summary SecureCRT said Connection refused. Terminal ssh to the exact same host...
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FortiGate Incomplete Certificate Chain: Fixing the Missing GoDaddy Intermediate
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary A routine external scan of a customer's public IPs came back with one finding: an incomplete FortiGate certificate...
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FortiGate Threat Feed Stuck on Not Start? Check for a 301 Redirect
Manny FernandezNo fluff. Just the config that works. FortiGate can pull IP, domain, URL and malware hash lists from outside servers...
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CVE-2026-97631: EDK2 PXE ICMP Overflow Turns Network Boot into Pre-Boot RCE
Manny FernandezCVE-2026-97631: EDK2 PXE ICMP Overflow Turns Network Boot into Pre-Boot RCE InfoSecMonkey | October 29, 2026 | No fluff. Just...
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Sales Forecasting Metrics Explained: A Sales Engineer’s Field Guide
Manny FernandezClosed, Commit, Best Case, Pipeline, and the Landing number, decoded for the SE who has to defend the technical win...
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Microsoft Paint CVE-2026-83844: The RCE Fix Windows Update Will Never Install
Manny FernandezNo fluff. Just the config that works. Executive Summary Paint CVE-2026-83844 is a remote code execution bug in the Windows...
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SonicWall GMS Vulnerability CVE-2026-109593: Unpatched, End of Life, and What to Do Now
Manny FernandezINFOSECMONKEY | CVE BRIEF | NO FLUFF. JUST THE CONFIG THAT WORKS. Executive Summary On November 3, 2026, SonicWall published...
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APT CVE-2026-109518: How a Download Retry Lets an Attacker Swap a Verified Package for Root
Manny FernandezAPT CVE-2026-109518: How a Download Retry Lets an Attacker Swap a Verified Package for Root No fluff. Just the config...
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Managing Windows Firewall from the Command Line: netsh, PowerShell and 7 Hidden Features
Manny FernandezManaging Windows Firewall from the Command Line: netsh, PowerShell and 7 Hidden Features No fluff. Just the config that works....
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OpenLDAP Server on Ubuntu 24.04: Deploy, Configure and Use It
Manny FernandezOpenLDAP Server on Ubuntu 24.04: Deploy, Configure and Use It No fluff. Just the config that works. An OpenLDAP server...
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