Category: wireless emergency alert

California’s Earthquake Early Warning system rolls out statewide

Post author By Randall
Post date October 17, 2019
Categories In california, earthquake, gear, Mobile, myshake, Politics, Security, shakealertla, Tech, wireless emergency alert

[ad_1] This system doesn’t predict earthquakes, and after quake’s early this year failed to produce a notification on phones in Los Angeles, the threshold for a warning has been lowered to at least a magnitude 4.5 and Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) of 3, which is similar to a truck driving by outside your house. According […]

California’s statewide earthquake alert system launches Thursday

Post author By Randall
Post date October 16, 2019
Categories In california, earthquake, gear, Mobile, myshake, shakealertla, Tech, wireless emergency alert

[ad_1] In Mexico and Japan, warning systems that send out alerts for seismic events have been in place for years, but a similar setup for California has been long-delayed. Finally, on Thursday the first statewide Earthquake Early Warning System will go online. Until now, large-scale alerts have only been available in LA County, where they […]

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 […]