Richi Jennings

Richi Jennings is a foolish independent industry analyst, editor, and content strategist. A former developer and marketer, he’s also written or edited for Computerworld, Microsoft, Cisco, Micro Focus, HashiCorp, Ferris Research, Osterman Research, Orthogonal Thinking, Native Trust, Elgan Media, Petri, Cyren, Agari, Webroot, HP, HPE, NetApp on Forbes and CIO.com. Bizarrely, his ridiculous work has even won awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, ABM/Jesse H. Neal, and B2B Magazine.

The famous “distracted boyfriend” meme: A man is walking with his girlfriend but looks backwards at another woman, to the disgust of his girlfriend

(In)Fidelity Admits Data Breach 8 Weeks Ago — 77K PII Lost

FMR FAIL: Huge investment firm won’t say how it was hacked ... Read More

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“Oh, won’t somebody please think of the children?”

Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs

Richi Jennings | October 9, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ... Read More

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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure

Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS) ... Read More

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Kia’s Huge Security Hole: FIXED (Finally)

Richi Jennings | September 30, 2024 | Car Dealer, connected car security, Connected Cars, connected vehicle, Connected Vehicles, connected-car, Consumer IoT, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, Kia, Korea, SB Blogwatch, South Korea, southkorea

Connected cars considered crud: Kia promises bug never exploited. But even 10-year-old cars were vulnerable ... Read More

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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it

Richi Jennings | September 18, 2024 | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages

No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ... Read More

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Microsoft Fixes Four 0-Days — One Exploited for SIX YEARS

Richi Jennings | September 11, 2024 | CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-43491, KB5043083, KB5043936, Mark of the Web, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2024, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Zero Day, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows Update

Week B: Bugs begone! This month Redmond fixes 79 security flaws in Windows and other products ... Read More

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Russian ‘WhisperGate’ Hacks: 5 More Indicted

Eaten by a GRU: Fake ransomware created by Russian GRU Unit 29155 attacked Ukraine and NATO—a month before the full scale invasion ... Read More

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Yikes, YubiKey Vulnerable — ‘EUCLEAK’ FIDO FAIL?

Richi Jennings | September 4, 2024 | CVE-2024-45678, ECDSA, EUCLEAK, FIDO, FIDO2, Infineon, Passkeys, SB Blogwatch, YSA-2024-03, Yubikey

USB MFA SCA😱: Infineon hardware and software blamed for timing side-channel attack on popular auth tokens ... Read More

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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target

Richi Jennings | August 28, 2024 | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon

Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ... Read More

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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril

Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ... Read More

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