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Cyber Trust Mark: The Impacts and Incentives of Early Adoption
The Cyber Trust Mark is a labeling initiative for consumer IoT devices in the United States that builds on work undertaken by the FCC and NIST, establishing data privacy and cybersecurity standards ...
FCC Pushes Ahead with Internet Routing Security Requirements
The Federal Communications Commission is considering requiring broadband providers to improve the cybersecurity of the networks that route traffic around the internet, an issue the FCC and other government agencies have been ...
FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 million, Google’s Fight Against Malicious Apps
In episode 328, Tom and Kevin discuss two major cybersecurity and privacy news stories. The first topic covers the FCC issuing fines to major US wireless carriers for sharing users’ real-time location ...
FCC Fines Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile for Sharing User Location Data
The country's largest wireless providers failed to get the consent of customers before selling the data to aggregators, the agency says ...
FCC Mulls Rules to Protect Abuse Survivors from Stalking Through Cars
To protect domestic violence survivors from abusers, the FCC wants to include internet-connected vehicles under the Safe Communication Act ...
FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?
Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...
‘Incompetent’ FCC Fiddles With Data Breach Rules
FCC FAIL: While Rome burns, Federal Communications Commission is once again behind the curve ...
FCC Asks Carmakers, Carriers How They’re Protecting Abuse Survivors
The Federal Communications Commission is pressing automakers and wireless service providers to say how they are protecting victims of domestic violence from being stalked by their abusers through the connected devices in ...
FCC Warns Carriers to Protect Customers Against SIM Swaps
A month after issuing new rules to push back against SIM-swap and similar schemes, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is warning mobile phone service providers of their obligations to protect consumers against ...
FCC’s Got New Rules for SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud
Too many times: Federal Communications Commission shuts stable door after horse bolted. But chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) was hoping it would save us ...
