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.
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Allstate Violates Drivers’ Privacy, Texas AG Alleges
Richi Jennings | | Allstate, android spyware, Arity, automaker, Car, cars, cellular IoT, cellular IoT security, Chrysler, Connected Cars, Consumer IoT, Dodge, Fiat, Fuel Rewards, GasBuddy, insurance, Insurance Companies, insurance company, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iOS spyware, iot, Jeep, Lexus, Life360, Maserati, Mazda, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, New Cars, Privacy, Privacy4Cars, ram, Routely, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Stellantis, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Toyota, vehicle, vehicle cybersecurity, vehicle OTAs
Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: “We will hold all these companies accountable,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ... Read More
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Insecure Medical Devices — Illumina DNA Sequencer Illuminates Risks
Richi Jennings | | biomedical, biomedical devices, commercial iot security, DNA, DNA Data, Family Tree DNA, Hackable Medical Devices, industrial internet of things, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, internetof things, internetofthings, internte-of-things, Intranet of Things, iot, medical, medical data, medical device, medical device security, Medical Devices, Medical devices cyber security, medical equipment, Ransomware, Ransomware of Things, SB Blogwatch, secure boot
IEI-IEI, Oh: Running an obsolete OS, on obsolete hardware, configured with obsolete settings ... Read More
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Best of 2024: 30,000 Dealerships Down — ‘Ransomware’ Outage Outrage no. 2 at CDK Global
Richi Jennings | | Automotive, Automotive industry, Car Dealer, CDK Global, cloud outage, cloud Saas, Downtime and outages, outage, outages, Private Equity, Ransomware, SaaS, SaaS App Security, SB Blogwatch, Software-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Spend more on security! Car and truck dealers fall back on pen and paper as huge SaaS provider gets hacked (again) ... Read More
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VW Cars Leak Private Data of 800,000 — ‘Volksdaten’
Richi Jennings | | Cariad, CCC, Chaos Computer Club, connected car security, Connected Cars, connected vehicle, Connected Vehicles, connected-car, electric vehicle, electric vehicle security, electric vehicles, motor vehicle, SB Blogwatch, software-defined vehicles, vehicle, vehicle cybersecurity, Volksdaten, Volkswagen
Cariad, VW Group’s software arm, made this classic error ... Read More
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Best of 2024: AT&T Says 110M Customers’ Data Leaked — Yep, it’s Snowflake Again
Richi Jennings | | 2 factor auth, 2-factor authentication, 2fa, ATT, Cloud MFA, Data leak, DUAL FACTOR AUTHENTICATION, MFA, mult-factor authentication, multi-factor authenication, Multi-Factor Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Multifactor Authentication, NYSE:SNOW, NYSE:T, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, ShinyHunters, snowflake, threats, two factor authentication, UNC5537
Should’ve used MFA: $T loses yet more customer data—this time, from almost all of them ... Read More
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AI Slop is Hurting Security — LLMs are Dumb and People are Dim
Richi Jennings | | AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI hallucination, AI Misinformation generative AI, artifical intelligence, Artifical Stupidity, Artificial Artificiality, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence in security, artificial intellignece, Artificial Stupidity, CVE, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), cybersecurity risks of generative ai, Gen AI, GenAI, genai-for-security, generative AI, generative ai gen ai, Generative AI risks, generative artificial intelligence, Large Language Model, large language models, Large Language Models (LLM), Large language models (LLMs), LLM, LLM Platform Abuse, llm security, SB Blogwatch, Seth Larson
Artificial stupidity: Large language models are terrible if you need reasoning or actual understanding ... Read More
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Critical OpenWrt Bug: Update Your Gear!
Richi Jennings | | Automatic Update, automatic updates, CVE-2024-54143, IoT firmware, Malicious Firmware Updates, OpenWrt, python, RyotaK, SB Blogwatch
ASU 48-bit trash hash: Open source router firmware project fixes dusty old code ... Read More
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Stoli Vodka: Bankrupt After Ransomware Attack
Richi Jennings | | Bankruptcy, Chris Caldwell, cyber attacks russia, Cybergoonery, Latvia, Party Like a Russian, Putin, Ransomware, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, SB Blogwatch, Stoli, Vladimir Putin, Yuri Shefler
Absolutely un-fabulous: Smells like Russia is responsible, but reality is a bit more complicated ... Read More
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China is Still Inside US Networks — It’s Been SIX Months
Richi Jennings | | china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese hacker, Chinese hackers, Chinese Hacking Groups, Chinese state-sponsored cyberattacks, cisa, Crypto, cryptography, Data encryption, Data Stolen By China, E2EE, Earth Estries, email encryption, encryption, end-to-end encryption, FamousSparrow, FBI, Ghost Emperor, ISPs, Jeff Greene, nsa, Peoples Republic of China, Salt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon cyberattack, SB Blogwatch, Telecom Networks, UNC2286
Hell froze over: FBI and NSA recommend you use strong encryption ... Read More
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QNAP’s Buggy Security Fix Causes Chaos
Richi Jennings | | automatic updates, data storage, firmware, firmware patch, firmware security, firmware update, Firmware Updates, hard disk drive, hard drive, NAS, os security updates, QNAP, QTS, RAID, Release Management, SB Blogwatch, security update, storage
RAID FAIL: NAS Maker does a CrowdStrike—cleanup on /dev/dsk/c1t2d3s4 please ... Read More
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