Cell phone towers are at the heart of
the country’s 911 system, one which is vulnerable to attack, according
to researchers in Israel. Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks
on the U.S. comes the sobering news that the nation’s 911 system could
potentially be hacked.
Researchers at Ben Gurion University
in Israel say in a report they’ve shared with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security and the FBI they’ve simulated a telephone
denial-of-service attack to disable a state’s 911 call centers, reports NDTV.
In a Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) attack, cell phones are
infected with malware so they make fake 911 calls, clogging the phone
lines and preventing legitimate calls from getting through. Continue Reading
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