Category: fema

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ fined $395,000 for using emergency alert tones

Post author By Randall
Post date August 16, 2019
Categories In abc, amc, av, emergencyalerttone, Entertainment, fcc, fema, gear, jimmykimmellive, Tech, thewalkingdead

[ad_1] The FCC points out that using such tones is prohibited outside of emergencies, adding that it was a serious public safety concern. “These rules aim to protect the integrity of the alert system by helping to avoid confusion when the tones are used, alert fatigue among listeners and false activation of the EAS by […]

FEMA’s presidential alerts are an easy target for spoofing attacks

Post author By Randall
Post date June 21, 2019
Categories In fake, fema, gear, Hack, lte, Mobile, Politics, presidential alerts, Security, spoof, Tech, vulnerability, wea, wireless emergency alert

[ad_1] In their paper, the researchers developed and tested a spoofing attack on presidential alerts. They used commercially available hardware and modified open-source software to send messages to nearly every phone in a 50,000-seat stadium with a 90 percent success rate. The vulnerability is due to the fact that WEA alerts use LTE. Alerts are […]