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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SLAP/FLOP: Apple Silicon’s ‘Son of Spectre’ Critical Flaws
Richi Jennings | | Apple, apple bug, Apple Data Security, Apple Silicon, ARM, Arm CPU Attack, arm64, Daniel Genkin, FLOP, iPad, iPhone, Jalen Chuang, Jason Kim, Mac, SB Blogwatch, Side-Channel, side-channel attack, side-channel attacks, SLAP, Spectre, Spectre attack, Spectre variant, speculative execution, Yuval Yarom
Watch this: Want more “speculative execution” bugs? You’re gonna be in a great mood all day ... Read More
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Trump U-Turn: TikTok’s On-Again/Off-Again U.S. Ban
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, china, chinese government, disinformation, Donald Trump, Misinformation, online disinformation, President Donald Trump, president trump, Privacy, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, SB Blogwatch, Social disinformation, social media, socialmedia, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Trump, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Not For You: “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” shouldn’t be enforced, orders President Trump ... Read More
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This is HUGE: Biden’s Cybersecurity Exec. Order — Big Parting Gift to Trump
Richi Jennings | | Biden, Biden administration, Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy, Biden-Harris, china, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, executive order cybersecurity, executive order on cybersecurity, Federal Government, Joe Biden, Peoples Republic of China, President Biden, president cybersecurity executive order, presidential executive order cybersecurity, SB Blogwatch, US Federal Government, White House, white house executive order cybersecurity framework
Wow. Just Wow: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. hits the emergency “do something” button ... Read More
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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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