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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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GDPR FAIL: US Firm ‘Profiles Half the World’ — it’s Max Schrems Again

| | Belgium, BICS, Data Privacy, EEA, eu, EU GDPR, EU Privacy Shield, EU-US Privacy Shield, Europe, Europe Regulation, European Compliance, European Court of Human Rights, European Digital Rights, European Union, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR compliance, gdpr eu, GDPR fine, GDPR violations, Privacy, Privacy Shield, Proximus, risk scoring, safe harbor, SB Blogwatch, Schrems, Schrems II, Scoring, social credit scores, TeleSign, Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
NYOB accuses TeleSign, Proximus and BICS of misusing phone users’ private data. Reputation scoring = privacy violation? ... Read More
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Vladimir Putin

Apple Fixes 0-Days — Russia Says US Used for Spying

| | Apple, CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32439, FSB, imessage, ios, kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Security, nsa, Russia, Russian FSB, SB Blogwatch, TriangleDB, triangulation
Vulns unpatched for FOUR years: ‘Triangulation’ spyware said to use backdoor Apple gave to NSA ... Read More
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Microsoft Repeatedly Burned in ‘Layer 7’ DDoS

| | Anonymous, Anonymous Hacking Collective, Anonymous Sudan, Application DDoS, application-layer DDoS attacks, azure, Azure cloud, Cloud DDoS, cloud outage, ddos, DDoS attack, DDoS attacks, Downtime and outages, killnet, Microsoft, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 outage, Microsoft 365 service outage alert, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Security, Microsoft Office 365, office 365, Office 365 Cloud Security, Office 365 Security, outage, outages, SB Blogwatch, Storm-1359
Unlucky number: Time and again this month, “Russian” hackers bring down Microsoft clouds ... Read More
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John Oliver

Reddit Ransomware Raid Redux: BlackCat/ALPHV Demands $4.5M

| | ALPHV ransomware, Blackcat, BlackCat ransomware, Breach, Privacy, Ransomware, reddit, Reddit breach, SB Blogwatch
And now, this: John-Oliver-pics protest won’t change Reddit policy, but will ransom demand work? ... Read More
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Mark Quashie, a/k/a The Mad Stuntman

CISA Warning: MOVEit Has Yet Another Zero-Day SQL Injection RCE Bug [updated]

| | CL0P, Cl0p Ransomware, clop, clop-ransomware, CVE-2023-34362, CVE-2023-35036, CVE-2023-35708, MOVEit Cloud, MOVEit Transfer, MOVEit Transfer Zero Day, Progress Software, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, sql injection, SQL injection attack, SQL injection attacks, sql injection prevention, SQL Injection Vulnerabilities, SQL injections
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is sheer incompetence ... Read More
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Your Personal Data Sold to US Intelligence Agencies

Your Personal Data Sold to US Intelligence Agencies

| | 4th Amendment, Data Brokers, Director of National Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Information Brokers, ODNI, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
What Price 4th Amendment? Warrant not needed if info bought from brokers ... Read More
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What a Mess: Barracuda Swaps Countless Appliances — Malware Can’t be Removed

What a Mess: Barracuda Swaps Countless Appliances — Malware Can’t be Removed

| | Barracuda, Barracuda Networks, email, email security, Email Security Gateway, ESG, SB Blogwatch
ESG FAIL: Patching alone won’t cut it ... Read More
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Pics AND it Didn’t Happen: Sex Deepfake FBI Alert

Pics AND it Didn’t Happen: Sex Deepfake FBI Alert

| | Adversarial machine learning, AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI and machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Deep Fake, Deep Fakery, Deep fakes, deepfake, deepfake videos, deepfakes, Evil Machine Learning, FBI, machine learning, Machine Learning security, porn, pornography, revenge porn, SB Blogwatch, sex, sextortion, sextortion scam, sextortionist, sexual harassment
Fake Pr0n Hint: Sextortionists stealing your innocent pictures to make AI nudes ... Read More
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Chrome Extensions Warning — Millions of Users Infected

Chrome Extensions Warning — Millions of Users Infected

| | Chrome, Chrome extension, chrome extensions, chrome store malware, Chrome Web Store, google, Malware, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
Malware Déjà Vu: Perhaps as many as 87 million victims—maybe more ... Read More
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Eugene Kaspersky—is he a useful idiot?

Russia Says NSA Hacked iOS With Apple’s Help — we Triangulate Kaspersky’s Research

| | Apple, back door, backdoor, FSB, imessage, ios, iPhone, kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky Security, nsa, Russia, Russian FSB, SB Blogwatch, spyware, triangulation, Zero Click Attack, Zero-Click Exploit
Tit-For-Tat Triangulation Trojan Talk: Backdoor inserted at U.S. behest, alleges FSB ... Read More
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