{"id":92645,"date":"2019-06-25T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/national-emergency-alerts-potentially-vulnerable-to-attack"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:02:26","slug":"national-emergency-alerts-potentially-vulnerable-to-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/national-emergency-alerts-potentially-vulnerable-to-attack","title":{"rendered":"National emergency alerts potentially vulnerable to attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XJ7FPYs2bIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On October 3, 2018, cell phones across the United States received a text message labeled \u201cPresidential Alert.\u201d The message read: \u201cTHIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the first trial run for a new national alert system, developed by several U.S. government agencies as a way to warn as many people across the United States as possible if a disaster was imminent.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder raises a red flag around these alerts\u2014namely, that such emergency alerts authorized by the President of the United States can, theoretically, be spoofed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 3, 2018, cell phones across the United States received a text message labeled \u201cPresidential Alert.\u201d The message read: \u201cTHIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.\u201d It was the first trial run for a new national alert system, developed by several U.S. government agencies as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}