WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to advance a proposal to boost the security of information routed across the internet after government agencies said a Chinese carrier had misrouted traffic.
The FCC since 2022 has been studying vulnerabilities that it says threaten the security and integrity of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), central to the internet’s global information routing system. The proposal would require broadband providers to create BGP security plans and file reports on risk mitigation progress. FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said Thursday U.S. agencies had recently publicly disclosed that China Telecom used BGP vulnerabilities “to misroute United States internet traffic on at least six occasions.”
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
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