{"id":989859,"date":"2026-02-05T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989859"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:33:10","slug":"us-senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-of-salt-typhoon-security-assessment-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/us-senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-of-salt-typhoon-security-assessment-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator says AT&amp;T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Democratic \u2060Senator Maria Cantwell on Tuesday said Verizon and AT&amp;T are blocking release of key documents about an alleged massive Chinese spying operation that infiltrated U.S. telecommunications \u200cnetworks known as \u200cSalt Typhoon and wants their CEOs to appear before Congress to answer questions. <\/p>\n<p>Cantwell asked \u200cboth companies to turn over security assessments conducted by Alphabet cybersecurity unit Mandiant. She said Mandiant refused to provide the requested network security assessments, apparently at the direction of AT&amp;T and Verizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Democratic \u2060Senator Maria Cantwell on Tuesday said Verizon and AT&amp;T are blocking release of key documents about an alleged massive Chinese spying operation that infiltrated U.S. telecommunications \u200cnetworks known as \u200cSalt Typhoon and wants their CEOs to appear before Congress to answer questions. Cantwell asked \u200cboth companies to turn over security assessments conducted by Alphabet cybersecurity unit Mandiant. She said Mandiant refused to provide the requested network security assessments, apparently at the direction of AT&amp;T and Verizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}