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June 21, 2019 11:42 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qR3GVH_SOsk/emergency-presidential-alert-texts-could-be-faked-researchers-say
Emergency Presidential Alert Texts Could Be Faked, Researchers Say
Fake presidential alerts could be sent to tens of thousands of phones, according to a report out of the University of Colorado Boulder. From a report: Researchers say they found a backdoor that let them mimic alerts and blast fake messages to people confined to a small area, such as a city block or a sports stadium. The researchers developed software mimicking the presidential alert format and then used commercially available wireless transmitters to send the messages to phones within their radius. The team had a success rate of hitting 90% of all phones in the area it tested.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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