FCC Follies: The 20 Year Chinese Communist Monitoring Fail

via Jon Brodkin, plying the writing trade at our beloved Ars Technica, comes this tale of the Federal Communications Commission's latest fail of note. This time, with the Communist Chinese. Read the Senate report, via the United States Senate's Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations. Today's Must Read.

'The Federal Communications Commission and other US agencies have failed to properly oversee Chinese telecom companies that operate in the United States, according to a bipartisan Senate report released today.' via Jon Brodkin, whilst scribing happily ensconced at Ars Technica

PhantomLance - A Story of Statecraft, Software Espionage, Security Mismanagement and APT32

Likely the most significant exposé of retail software security mismanagement this fiscal year - Wired New York-based Senior Writer Andy Greenberg's 'How Spies Snuck Malware Into the Google Play Store -- Again' is making the rounds here at Casa Infosec. It's the Must Read for this week, and possibly the entire month {except for - maybe - this superb piece of security journalism - another Andy Greenberg effort, take a gander, if you will}.

"GOOGLE'S PLAY STORE for Android apps has never had a reputation for the strictest protections from malware. Shady adware and even banking trojans have managed over the years to repeatedly defy Google's security checks." - via Wired writer Andy Greenberg