Federal regulators are warning that hackers have been hijacking U.S. radio transmissions to air bogus emergency management messages and obscene language, disrupting the attention signal used by the nation’s Emergency Alert System, and retired FBI agent and cybersecurity expert Scott Augenbaum told Newsmax on Wednesday that the situation is far more than a technical glitch.
“Imagine for a second you’re sitting at home, you’re listening to the radio, you’re watching television, and a message comes across the screen saying that, you know, a tanker truck exploded and has noxious gas, get out of your house immediately,” Augenbaum said on Newsmax’s “National Report.”
“Imagine the panic that that would create … this is part of critical infrastructure,” he added.
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