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
‘Aggressive’ Akira Ransomware Blitz Clubs SonicWall 2FA to DEATH
Richi Jennings | | 2 factor, 2 factor auth, 2-factor authentication, 2fa, 2FA bypass, 2FA Flaws, 2FA/MFA, Akira, Akira ransomware, CVE-2024-40766, hacking two factor, MFA, MFA hacks, mfa login, Multi-Factor Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Multifactor Authentication, multifactorauthentication, OTP, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, SonicWall, SonicWall VPN, ssl vpn, two factor authentication, two-factor, two-factor athentication, two-factor-authentication.2fa
Strange factors: Yet another security problem plaguing SonicWall customers ... Read More
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Jaguar Land Rover Admits to Longer Shutdown as Childish Hackers Troll Carmaker
Richi Jennings | | Blog, communication and social engineering, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, DevSecOps, FEATURED, Information Security, IT Security and Data Protection, Jaguar, Jaguar Land Rover, Land Rover, Lapsus$, malicious social engineering, Phishing and social engineering, professional social engineers, Ransomware, SAP, sap exploits, SB Blogwatch, scattered spider, security, Security News, ShinyHunters, social engineering, social engineering attack, Tata Communications, Tata Consultancy Services, Top Stories, UNC6040, UNC6240
JLR vs. SLH: Jaguar Land Rover woes worse than previously thought ... Read More
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Microsoft’s ‘Gross Cybersecurity Negligence Threatens National Security’
Richi Jennings | | Active Directory, Active Directory Attacks, Application Security, Ascension, Best Practices, Cyber Attacks Microsoft, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, data protection, Data Security, DevSecOps, encryption, FEATURED, Featured Articles, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), FTC, Industry News, Information Security, IT Security and Data Protection, Kerberoasting, Malware, Microsoft, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Network Security, Phishing, Privacy, Ransomware, Rc4, RC4 attack, Ron Wyden, Sarcasm, SB Blogwatch, security, Security Education, Security News, Sen. Ron Wyden, Top Stories, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, USFTC, Vulnerabilities, Windows
Roasting Redmond for Kerberoasting: “Like an arsonist selling firefighting services,” quips this 76-year-old ... Read More
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Burger King’s ‘Very Bad’ Bugs Leaked Your Data, Claim Gagged Hackers
Richi Jennings | | AI, API security, Burger King, canada, Carrols, Cloud Security, CloudFlare, Content Takedown, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Cyble, Data breach, Data Privacy, Data Security, DevSecOps, DMCA, FEATURED, Featured Articles, Firehouse Subs, Industry News, Information Security, IT Security and Data Protection, Network Security, Popeyes, Privacy, Restaurant Brands International, SB Blogwatch, security, Security News, Streisand Effect, takedown, takedowns, Tim Hortons, Top Stories, Vulnerabilities, website takedown, website takedowns
Streisand Effect in full effect: Restaurant Brands International (RBI) “assistant” platform riddled with terrible security flaws ... Read More
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Google Hack Redux: Should 2.5B Gmail Users PANIC Now?
Richi Jennings | | breach of privacy, communication and social engineering, CRM, CRM phishing, Gmail, Gmail spoofing, google, Google Threat Intelligence, Help Desk Social Engineering, journalism, malicious social engineering, Phishing and social engineering, Phone Social Engineering, Privacy, professional social engineers, Salesforce, salesforce security, Salesloft, SB Blogwatch, ShinyHunters, social engineering, social engineering attack, social engineering news vishing, UNC6040, UNC6240, vish, vishers, vishiing
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Let’s ask Ian Betteridge ... Read More
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Farmers Group Loses 1.111M PII Rows: It’s Salesforce Again
Richi Jennings | | breach of privacy, Bristol West, communication and social engineering, CRM, CRM phishing, farmers, Farmers Group, Farmers Insurance Exchange, Foremost, Help Desk Social Engineering, malicious social engineering, Phishing and social engineering, Phone Social Engineering, Privacy, professional social engineers, Salesforce, salesforce security, SB Blogwatch, scattered spider, ShinyHunters, social engineering, social engineering attack, social engineering news vishing, UNC6040, UNC6240, vish, vishers, vishiing, Zurich Insurance Group
ShinyHunters Hunt Again: Scattered Spider claims another Salesforce instance—albeit three months ago ... Read More
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NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.
Richi Jennings | | censorship, china, Denial of Service, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, denial of service attacks, denial of service vulnerability, Denial-of-Service (DoS), Government Censorship, Great Firewall of China, HTTPS, HTTPS connection, internet censorship, online censorship, Pakistan, Peoples Republic of China, port 443, SB Blogwatch, State Censorship, TCP, TCP/IP, The Great Firewall, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) vulnerabilities
Xi Whiz: HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged replies ... Read More
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UK Quietly Drops ‘Think of the Children’ Apple iCloud Crypto Crack Call
Richi Jennings | | ADP, Apple, Apple Data Security, Apple iCloud, back door, backdoors, British, British intelligence, Chat Control, E2EE, Encryption Backdoor, end-to-end encryption, gchq, Government Backdoors, ICloud, JD Vance, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Sir Keir Starmer, Tulsi Gabbard, uk, United Kingdom, Won’t somebody think of the children?
ADP E2EE vs. UK: Brits agree to change course, but Tim still shtum ... Read More
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Act Surprised: Data Brokers Seem to Scoff at California Privacy Act
Richi Jennings | | California, California Consumer Privacy Act, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), CCPA, CCPA Compliance, CCPA Compliance Monitoring, Dark Pattern Web Design, dark patterns, Data Broker, Data broker regulations, Data Brokers, DROP, Privacy, robots.txt, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Maggie Hassan
Privacy Rights Crushed by robots.txt: Sen. Hassan is on the warpath ... Read More
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ANOTHER WinRAR 0-Day: Don’t Patch Now — Uninstall It!
Richi Jennings | | Application Security, CVE-2025-8088, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Espionage, Eugene Roshal, EUVD-2025-23983, Information Security, Phishing, Privacy, RomCom, SB Blogwatch, security, Storm-0978, Tropical Scorpius, UNC2596, UnRAR, Vulnerabilities, WinRAR
Zero day—zero clue: Old, bug-prone app relies on you to go look for update files ... Read More
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