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.

Best of 2025: Huge Food Wholesaler Paralyzed by Hack — is it Scattered Spider Again?

UNFInished business: We were warned this would happen. And now here we are ... Read More

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Best of 2025: NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.

HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged  replies. Chinese web users couldn’t access websites outside the People’s Republic yesterday. The outage lasted an hour and a quarter—with no explanation. Nobody’s sure whether it was a mistake or an ominous test of new censorship capabilities. But some are linking it to a ... Read More

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Best of 2025: Oracle Hack: From ‘Deny-Deny-Deny’ to ‘Oops-Oops-Oops’

Richi Jennings | December 26, 2025 | CVE-2021-35587, Larry Ellison, OCI, Oracle, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Classic, Oracle cloud, Oracle Cloud Classic, Oracle Cloud infrastructure, Oracle Fusion Cloud, rose87168, SB Blogwatch

Classic “wordplay:” Larry’s PR angels desperately dance on the head of a pin ... Read More

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (caricature)

Best of 2025: Ukraine Pwns Russian Drone Maker — Gaskar is ‘Paralyzed’

Ukrainian Cyber Alliance and Black Owl team up to hack manufacturer of Russian military drones, sources  say. Gaskar Group, Russian designer of drones plaguing Ukraine’s skies, is in utter disarray. Or, at least, so says Ukrainian military intelligence. Hacker groups teamed up to steal and delete 57 TB of critical data and ... Read More

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US Defense Contractor Boss Sold Zero Days to Russia — Cops a Plea

So long and thanks for all the fish: Peter Williams admits to selling unpatched iPhone bugs to a shady Russian broker ... Read More

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A Gloucester Old Spot Piglet in Hereford, UK

Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘is Facilitating’ Scams via Starlink

Low Earth Pork: Pig-butchering scammers in Myanmar lose use of 2,500 Starlink terminals ... Read More

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October Patch Tuesday Fails Hard — Windows Update Considered Harmful?

Richi Jennings | October 21, 2025 | CVE-2024-30098, DisableCapiOverrideForRSA, KB5066835, KB5070773, Microsoft patch tuesday, SB Blogwatch, Windows Update, Windows updates, WinRE

Satya fiddles while Redmond burns? Showstopper bugs with security certificates—plus failing USB keyboards and mice—cause QA questions ... Read More

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#Pixnapping: Android Timing Attack Sends Google Back to the Drawing Board

Richi Jennings | October 14, 2025 | android, Android 16, Android Application Hacking, Android attack, CVE-2025-48561, google, Pixnapping, Rowhammer, SB Blogwatch, Side-Channel, side-channel attack, side-channel attacks, software supply chain, software supply chain attack, software supply chain attacks

If at first you don’t succeed: Researchers discover a new way to steal secrets from Android apps ... Read More

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#RediShell: Redis/Valkey Get ‘Perfect 10’ Critical RCE Vuln

Redis hell: CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in ubiquitous cloud storage layer. PATCH NOW ... Read More

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Asahi Hack Update: Beer-Free Day #5 Dawns in Japanese Ransomware Crisis

Richi Jennings | October 3, 2025 | Asahi, Atsushi Katsuk, Beer, Data breach, Data leak, data leakage, Data Leaks, Japan, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch

金のうんこ！ Breaking: Big beer brewer belatedly believes bitten by ransomware—and likely a data breach ... Read More

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On