Remember that emergency Presidential Alert system that made everyone’s phone obnoxiously buzz last year?
It turns out hackers can spoof these alerts with relatively little effort, according to a terrifying new paper that warns the flaw could result in mass panic.
The paper, titled “This is Your President Speaking: Spoofing Alerts in 4G LTE Networks,” details how a group of researchers were able to successfully fake mobile presidential alerts using commercially-available equipment. They were able to do so is due to a flaw in LTE networks that makes it possible for people to use store-bought equipment to create “black market cell towers,” according to the paper’s authors. Read more…
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Source : Hackers can spoof presidential alerts to incite mass panic, researchers warn
