The new rules would overhaul national emergency systems to protect against hijacking and update federal security review rules for undersea cables providers

The agency will begin targeted assessments meant to help critical infrastructure entities operate while disconnecting OT networks from IT and third-party vendors.

The commission wants telecoms to do more to verify their callers and prevent illegal calls and scams from reaching Americans.

Two measures aim to make it harder for robocallers to obtain valid U.S. phone numbers and pressure companies to onshore call center services. 

The choice to ban all foreign-made routers instead of targeting known risks could create legal and supply chain disruptions with unclear national security returns.

Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants hearings to force AT&T and Verizon to disclose how they’ve responded to the hacks to protect telecom networks.

A year after Chinese hackers were found in U.S. telecom networks, Congress and federal agencies have taken few concrete actions to stop the next hack.

Attorneys general across the country are also taking action in a program dubbed “Operation Robocall Roundup.”

A district appeals court ruled that the FCC “correctly determined” that telecoms had a duty to protect customer location data that was sold and later misused by…

The rules, introduced during the Biden administration, would force telecoms to notify customers when their personally identifiable information is exposed in a hack.