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.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the plan to make Facebook more private at Facebook’s Developer Conference on April 30, 2019

Meta AI is a ‘Privacy Disaster’ — OK Boomer

More Meta mess: Pundits accuse Zuckerberg’s latest app of having a “dark pattern,” tricking the over 50s into oversharing ... Read More

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Huge Food Wholesaler Paralyzed by Hack — is it Scattered Spider Again?

UNFInished business: We were warned this would happen. And now here we are ... Read More

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Meta’s Secret Spyware: ‘Local Mess’ Hack Tracks You Across the Web

Farcebok: Zuckerberg’s privacy pledge revealed as ineffectual ... Read More

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Microsoft Opens Windows Update to 3rd-Party Apps

A breath of fresh air: Security fixes and other updates will be “orchestrated” by Redmond’s own update tool ... Read More

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Start of the derivation of Ehrenfest’s theorem—chalk on a blackboard

RSA and Bitcoin at BIG Risk from Quantum Compute

PQC PDQ: Researchers find we’ll need 20 times fewer qubits to break conventional encryption than previously believed ... Read More

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The Windows Signal window showing all black

Signal Gives Microsoft a Clear Signal: Do NOT Recall This

Black screen of DRM: Privacy-first messenger blocks Microsoft Recall ... Read More

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Warning to US Retail: ‘Scattered Spider’ Targets YOU (with DragonForce Ransomware)

Arachnid alarm: Three major British retailers recently attacked, resulting in huge damage. Now we see the self-same scum spotlighting stores in the States ... Read More

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Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

As US CVE Database Fumbles, EU ‘Replacement’ Goes Live

Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) launches this week. And not a moment too soon ... Read More

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200,000 Workers’ PII at Risk in WorkComposer S3 SNAFU

Don’t say ‘spyware’—21 million screenshots in one open bucket ... Read More

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Asian Scam Farms: ‘Industrial Scale,’ Warns UN Report

Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar ... Read More

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GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On