Daily NCSC-FI news followup 2020-01-03
Don’t Xiaomi pics of other people’s places! Chinese kitmaker fingers dodgy Boxing Day cache update after Google banishes it from Home
www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/03/google_blocks_xiaomi/ Xiaomi has blamed some post-Christmas cache digestion problems after finding itself plonked on the naughty step by Google which blocked the Chinese tech conglomerate’s devices from its Nest Hub and Assistant last night.
U.S. Government Issues Warning About Possible Iranian Cyberattacks
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-government-issues-warning-about-possible-iranian-cyberattacks/ Christopher C. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning about a potential new wave of Iranian cyber-attacks targeting U.S. assets after Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was killed by a U.S. airstrike at the Baghdad airport in Iraq.
