Hackers Use EAS to Send Alert of Zombie Attack - FCC Issues Urgent Warning to Broadcasters to Secure Their EAS Systems
Broadcast Law Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
In the last two days, several radio and television stations across the country had their station's EAS systems hacked – and ended up broadcasting alerts dealing with zombie attacks that went out using the standard EAS systems and appeared or sounded to the viewer or listener to be real alerts. The FCC and others involved in the EAS program fear that other fake alerts have already been inserted into stations' systems and may be broadcast soon – perhaps during events like the State of
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