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Aussie govt emergency service hacked to send fake warning alerts

A hacker managed to infiltrate Australian emergency warning system Early Warning Network (EWN). The hacker accessed the system and sent countless messages to random citizens informing them that “you’ve been hacked.” However, the warning service’s managing director Kerry Plowright claims that someone did infiltrate and accessed the system but user information hasn’t been exposed. Plowright […]

Hackers can Send Fake Emergency Alerts by Exploiting 4G LTE Protocol Flaws

Researchers at the Purdue University and the University of Iowa, USA, have managed to break the key 4G LTE protocols for generation of fraudulent messages, spy upon users and modify user location data. Researchers Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino from Purdue University and Omar Chowdhury from the University of Iowa collaborated to […]