Zombies Attack Emergency Alert System

In 1938 it took a whole radio network to convince people that Martians had landed in New Jersey. In 2013 it took only one hacker to tell people that dead bodies were “attacking the living” in Montana and Michigan.

TVNewsCheck has the story. TVSpy has a few more details. And check-out this post about EAS decoder vunerability from Kaspersky Lab. (And thanks to FierceCable for the tip.)

And if the Admin password for your firewall is still “changeme”, this could happen to you!

Update: On August 1st 2022, FEMA issued an alert about vulnerabilities in certain EAS devices. Read the Radio World article here.