US 911 emergency system can be crippled by a mobile botnet
Posted on Sep 13, 2016 01:55 pm
What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911
emergency system across the US? According to researchers from
Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev’s Cyber-Security Research
Center, as little as 200,000 compromised mobile phones located
throughout the country. The phones, made to repeatedly place calls
to the 911 service, would effect a denial-of-service attack that
would made one third (33%) of legitimate callers give up on
reaching it. And if the number of those … More →
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