Several models of Emergency Alert System decoders, used to break into
TV and radio broadcasts to announce public safety warnings, have
vulnerabilities that would allow hackers to hijack them and deliver fake
messages to the public, according to an announcement by a security firm
on Monday.
The vulnerabilities included a private root SSH key that was
distributed in publicly available firmware images that would have
allowed an attacker with SSH access to a device to log in with root
privileges and issue fake alerts or disable the system...
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