Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data - Security Boulevard

Bogus Baidu Boo-Boo

Wait, what? As the researchers who discovered the problem point out, #Baidu has no business sniffing your phone’s #IMSI or #IMEI. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we give thanks: https://t.co/sWA34RH756

— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) November 25, 2020

Should you pen-test WFH staff? Consumer gear has terrible security. - TechBeacon

The moral of the story? Audit the equipment your users use in their working-from-home networks. You’re going to have to keep up with the security status of that too, and mandate replacement of devices that can’t be secured

You know it makes sense. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we give thanks: https://t.co/ZThqgCX7In

— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) November 25, 2020

Congress Passes IoT Security Act, but is it Toothless? - Security Boulevard

NIST and OMB to Lead

… But it was just a bill. Yes—only a bill. And they voted for it on #CapitolHill. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, it’s off to the @WhiteHouse, where it’ll wait in a line, with a lot of other bills, for the @POTUS to sign (or not): https://t.co/OSM9EylIea

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— @Richi Jennings (@RiCHi) November 24, 2020