LTE Flaw Lets Hackers "Easily" Spoof Presidentail Alerts [telecom]

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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Security vulnerabilities in LTE can allow hackers to "easily" spoof presidential alerts sent to mobile phones in the event of a national emergency.

Using off-the-shelf equipment and open-source software, a working exploit made it possible to send a simulated alert to every phone in a

50,000-seat football stadium with little effort, with the potential of causing "cascades of panic," said researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder in a paper out this week.

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