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August 12, 2022

Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

This post was originally published on this siteThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging states and localities to beef up security around proprietary devices that connect to the Emergency Alert System — a national public warning system used to deliver important emergency information, such as severe weather and AMBER alerts. The DHS warning came in advance of a workshop to be held this weekend at the DEFCON security conference in Las Vegas, where a security researcher is slated to demonstrate multiple weaknesses in the nationwide alert system. A Digital Alert Systems EAS encoder/decoder that Pyle said he acquired off […]
April 14, 2023

Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

This post was originally published on this site KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about “juice jacking,” a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk. It remains unclear what may have prompted the alerts, but the good news is that there are some fairly basic things you can do to avoid having to worry about juice jacking. On April 6, 2023, the FBI’s […]