Cybersecurity
FCC Responds to Chinese Attack on Telecom Firms With New Rules
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The US Federal Communications Commission proposed a set of rules Thursday that mandates carriers take steps to protect their networks against cybersecurity threats in the wake of revelations that Chinese hackers have likely been embedded in US communications infrastructure for months — with no end in sight.
Carriers should be required to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications,” according to the agency, a step the FCC declined to take three decades ago after Congress passed a law to make it easier for law enforcement to access the networks.