[EAS] Another EAS hack: Zombie alerts
David Turnmire
EASsbeList at cableone.net
Sun Mar 5 20:16:03 CST 2017
On 3/4/2017 1:00 PM, Botterell, Arthur at CalOES wrote:
> I guess it means it's up to management to decide whether an occasional hijacking of their transmitters costs more than the investment required to secure them.
Yeah, buying a $50 NAT router and changing the default passwords is such
a burdensome thing to do!
Not saying that is where one should stop with their cyber security
efforts, but as I recall either of those two measures by themselves
would have stopped pretty much all of the publicized hacks of
broadcasters. The low hanging fruit is dragging on the ground...
Dave
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