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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LockBit Takedown by Brits — Time for ‘Operation Cronos’
Richi Jennings | | British, British intelligence, Infrastructure Takedown, Lockbit, LockBit ransomware, National Crime Agency, network takedown, Operation Cronos, SB Blogwatch, takedown, takedowns, U.K. National Crime Agency, uk, website takedown, website takedowns
RaaS nicked: 11-nation army led by UK eliminates ransomware-for-hire scrotes’ servers ... Read More
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DoD Email Breach: Pentagon Tells Victims 12 Months Late
Richi Jennings | | Anurag Sen, azure, Azure cloud, Azure Government Cloud, Compliance Automation Platform for FedRAMP, data privacy PII, defense department, Department of Defense, devops in government, DevSecOps in Government, digital government, DoD, email, Federal Government, Federal Government Bids, FedRAMP, fedramp accreditation;, fedramp ato, fedramp certification, fedramp compliance, government, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Security, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Server, pentagon, pii, PII Leakage, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Department of Defense, United States Department of Defense, US DOD, USDoD, USSOCOM
3TB Email FAIL: Personal info of tens of thousands leaks. Microsoft cloud email server was missing a password ... Read More
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ALERT: Thieves❤️Wi-Fi Camera Jammers
Richi Jennings | | camera, camera hijacking, camera vulnerability, cameras, CCTV camera, CCTV cameras, Consumer IoT, hacked Wi-FI, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, internet-enabled cameras, iot, IoT camera, IoT security camera, IP surveillance cameras, ipcamera, Ring Camera, safe wifi, SB Blogwatch, unsecure Wi-FI, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hacking, Wi-Fi networks, wi-fi security
I❤️POE: Does your home security need a rethink? Wireless cameras are kinda useless, say cops ... Read More
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‘Incompetent’ FCC Fiddles With Data Breach Rules
Richi Jennings | | breach notification, Data Breach Notification, data breach notification laws, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, GDPR Breach Notification, Jessica Rosenworcel, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
FCC FAIL: While Rome burns, Federal Communications Commission is once again behind the curve ... Read More
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Linux Vendors Squawk: PATCH NOW — CVSS 9.8 Bootkit Bug in shim.efi
Richi Jennings | | BIOS, CVE-2023-40547, Enterprise Linux and Open Source, Linux, open source, Open Source and Software Supply Chain Risks, open source code, Open Source Community, open source components, open source development, Open Source Ecosystem, SB Blogwatch, secure boot, shim, UEFI, UEFI Failing, UEFI vulnerabilities
Snow joke: A Microsoft researcher found it—and it’s somehow Microsoft’s fault ... Read More
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‘Total Bollocks’ — No, Your Toothbrush isn’t DDoS’ing
Richi Jennings | | botnet, Botnet Attack, botnets, Consumer IoT, ddos, DDoS attack, DDoS botnet, Fortinet, Inc., Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, IoT botnet
PR FAIL: Were 3 million toothbrushes hacked into a botnet? Or does a Fortinet spokeschild have egg on his face? ... Read More
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CFO Deepfake Fools Staff — Fakers Steal $26M via Video
Richi Jennings | | Deep Fake, deepfake, deepfake attacks, Deepfake Satire, Deepfake security threats, Deepfake Technology, deepfake videos, hong kong, SB Blogwatch, Taylor Swift
Bad hoax blood: Spearphish pivots to deepfake Zoom call, leads to swift exit of cash ... Read More
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Microsoft Ditches C# for Rust: M365 Core Gets Safety and Perf Boosts
C# — Rust in peas: Microsoft 365 “Core Platform Substrate” gets rewrite in Rust language ... Read More
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FBI Warning: China Will Hack US Infra. (via Router Botnet)
Richi Jennings | | BRONZE SILHOUETTE, china, Chinese Communists, chinese government, chinese hacker, Chinese hackers, Chinese Threat Actors, election cybersecurity, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Peoples Republic of China, PRC, SB Blogwatch, Volt Typhoon
a/k/a BRONZE SILHOUETTE: FBI head Wray won’t tolerate China’s “real-world threat to our physical safety.” ... Read More
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Russian Internet Outage: DNSSEC Oops or Ukraine Hack?
Richi Jennings | | dns, DNS Attacks, DNS hijack, DNS hijacking, DNSSEC, Russia, Russia Exodus, Russia-Ukraine, russia-ukraine conflict, Russia's War on Ukraine, russian, Russian Cyber War, SB Blogwatch
It was DNS. It’s always DNS: Government ministry denies hackers hacked its network infrastructure ... Read More
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