Hackers Infiltrate Servers Vulnerability To Send Out Fake Alerts
A vulnerability discovered by a security researcher in the emergency alert systems of the United States could allow hackers to infiltrate the servers to send out fake alerts across the country.
Ken Pyle, who had asserted in the aforementioned is about to present his analysis at the Las Vegas conference between August 11-14th this year and will represent formally CYBIR.com.
Counter Measures Taken By Homeland
US Department of Homeland Security has taken note of the software flaw and analyzed its effects.
Consequently, Homeland issued a warning that cyber crooks could hijack the emergency alert systems to trigger fake warnings about an unforeseen apocalypse over radio and TV stations.
The DHS’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has asked Mr. Ken to report on this note and is also interested in seeing his presentation at the DEFCON 2022 conference.
Ken Pyle said, Guaranteeing that patches are applied to EAS systems on a regular note and they are placed behind a well-protected firewall is what needs to be carried out now.
Based on the technical analysis, a renowned tech resource confirms that the vulnerability is present in Monroe Electronics R189 One-Net DASDEC EAS.
This encoder or decoder is used in emergency alert systems and across all TV and radio stations.
Alerts Serves As Warnings To Authorities
If history is anything to go by, such alert systems were being used by government authorities to broadcast warnings in bulk- say in the 80s to almost 10-15 years ago.
Nevertheless, with smartphones, 5Gnetworksk, and social media, old alert systems are being replaced by new digital technologies.
News alert banners are directly targeted onto the home screens of mobile phone users.
In what’s known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, most of the patches are related to memory safety flaws that could expose users to threat actors launching remote attacks.
