Tag Archives: Department of Homeland Security

“Huge flaw” threatens US emergency alert system, DHS researcher warns

Enlarge / Obstruction light with bokeh city background The US Department of Homeland Security is warning of vulnerabilities in the nation’s emergency broadcast network that makes it possible for hackers to issue bogus warnings over radio and TV stations. “We recently became aware of certain vulnerabilities in EAS encoder/decoder devices that, if not updated to… Read More »

FBI/DHS: Government election systems face threat from active Zerologon exploits

Getty Images reader comments 28 with 24 posters participating Share this story The FBI and the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security said they have detected hackers exploiting a critical Windows vulnerability against state and local governments and that in some cases the attacks are being used to breach networks used to support… Read More »

DHS warns that Emotet malware is one of the most prevalent threats today

reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story The malware known as Emotet has emerged as “one of the most prevalent ongoing threats” as it increasingly targets state and local governments and infects them with other malware, the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. Emotet was first identified… Read More »