{"id":25540,"date":"2016-05-10T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/us-investigates-security-of-mobile-devices"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:19","slug":"us-investigates-security-of-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/us-investigates-security-of-mobile-devices","title":{"rendered":"US investigates security of mobile devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-investigates-security-of-mobile-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not saying that the whole Apple situation cause this; it just odd timing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have asked mobile phone carriers and manufacturers to explain how they release security updates amid mounting concerns over security vulnerabilities, the U.S. agencies said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies have written to <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"8016\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"AAPL\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"31053\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"T\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/T\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T<\/a> and <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"19004\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"GOOGL\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet<\/a>, among others, in order \u201cto better understand, and ultimately to improve, the security of mobile devices,\u201d the FCC said.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC sent letters to six mobile phone carriers on security issues, while the FTC ordered eight mobile device manufacturers including <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"30315\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"BB-CA\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BB-CA\" target=\"_blank\">BlackBerry<\/a>, <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"25619\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"MSFT\" href=\"http:\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, LG Electronics USA and Samsung Electronics America to disclose \u201cthe factors that they consider in deciding whether to patch a vulnerability on a particular mobile device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/05\/10\/us-investigates-security-of-mobile-devices.html\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/05\/10\/us-investigates-security-of-mobile-devices.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not saying that the whole Apple situation cause this; it just odd timing. The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have asked mobile phone carriers and manufacturers to explain how they release security updates amid mounting concerns over security vulnerabilities, the U.S. agencies said on Monday. The agencies have written to Apple, AT&amp;T and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67533,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25540\/revisions\/67533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}