"LTE Flaws Let Hackers ‘Easily’ Spoof Presidential Alerts"

Hackers can use off-the-shelf equipment and open source software to exploit security vulnerabilities in LTE that could allow them to spoof presidential alerts disseminated to mobile devices, which could lead to panic and chaos. The attack designed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder could allow alerts to be sent by malicious actors, to every phone in a 50,000-seat football stadium. This article continues to discuss the attack developed by researchers, the LTE vulnerabilities that make such attacks possible, and how these vulnerabilities could be fixed.

TechCrunch reports "LTE Flaws Let Hackers ‘Easily’ Spoof Presidential Alerts"