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.
Richi Jennings
Microsoft FAIL: ‘BlackLotus’ Bootkit Breaks Secure Boot
The BlackLotus malware targets UEFI Secure Boot. For a mere $5000, you too can own it ... Read More
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US Marshals Ransomware Hack is ‘Major Incident’
Richi Jennings | | Data leak, DevSecOps in Government, Federal Government, government, government compliance, government cyber attacks, government data leak, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Marshals, USMS
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has been hacked (again). Scrotes stole sensitive stuff (supposedly) ... Read More
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‘See No Evil’ — Mozilla SLAMS Google’s App Privacy Labels
Richi Jennings | | android, Android apps, facebook, google, Google Play Store, Minecraft, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, Play Store, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, See no evil, Twitter
Google doesn’t want you to know what your Android apps do with your data. That seems to be the conclusion from a Mozilla study into the Play Store ... Read More
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Surprise! US DoD Server Had no Password — 3TB of Sensitive Data Leaked
Richi Jennings | | azure, Azure cloud, Azure Government Cloud, defense department, Department of Defense, DoD, email, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Security, pentagon, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Department of Defense, United States Department of Defense, US DOD, USSOCOM
Sensitive military data found on unprotected Microsoft Azure server. Defense Department email store left insecure for at least 11 days ... Read More
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GoDaddy Hosting Hacked — for FOURTH Time in 4 Years
Richi Jennings | | cPanel, GoDaddy, GoDaddy hacked, godaddy.com, hacked WordPress, hosting, hosting provider, persistence, Persistent Threats, SB Blogwatch, webhosting, Website Hosting
GoDaddy’s web hosting service breached yet again. This time, the perps were redirecting legit websites to malware ... Read More
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‘Serious’ Ransomware Emergency in Oakland, Calif. — Legacy FAIL
Oakland is still reeling from last week’s ransomware attack. San Francisco’s poorer neighbor is asking for help ... Read More
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Your Mental Health Data for Sale or Rent — 20¢
Richi Jennings | | Data Brokers, GDPR, health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), healthcare, HIPAA, Mental Health, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
U.S. GDPR ASAP: Data brokers are selling PII about mental health conditions—depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, OCD, etc ... Read More
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Reddit Hacked — 2FA is no Phishing Phix
Richi Jennings | | 2fa, 2FA phishing, 2FA/MFA, FIDO2, MFA, Phishing, reddit, Reddit breach, SB Blogwatch, spear fishing, TOTP, WebAuthn
Reddit got hacked with a “sophisticated” spear phishing attack. The individual victim was an employee who clicked the wrong email link ... Read More
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Amazing Fast Crypto for IoT — US NIST Fingers ASCON
Richi Jennings | | AEAD, aes, ASCON, CAESAR, cryptography, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, NIST, SB Blogwatch
Implementing modern cryptography standards on tiny IoT devices is hard. They’re underpowered, need to sip battery charge and something like AES is often overkill ... Read More
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Dutch Cops Bust ‘Exclu’ Messaging Service, Arrest 42
Richi Jennings | | crime, drug trade, dutch, Exclu, holland, law enforcement, Netherlands police, Organized Crime, police, SB Blogwatch, secure messaging
Police in the Netherlands broke open alleged drugs gangs by hacking an encrypted messenger service, Exclu. Lives were saved and alleged perps arrested ... Read More
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