Industry Should Adopt Best Practices to Protect SS7, FCC Says
The Public Safety Bureau Thursday encouraged service providers to implement Signaling System 7 security countermeasures recommended by the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council. “SS7 supports fixed and mobile service providers in processing and routing calls and text messages…
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between networks, enabling fixed and mobile networks to connect, and providing call session information such as Caller ID and billing data for circuit switched infrastructure,” said a public notice. “Over the last several years, numerous research findings and media reports call attention to security vulnerabilities present within SS7 networks.”