Tuesday 13 September 2016
Attackers could severely disrupt America’s 911 system, a new report suggests. A botnet of 400,000 infected phones could basically disable 911 nationwide. All the infected phones would have to do is call 911, constantly, and eventually wait times would get so bad most people with legitimate emergencies would hang up rather than wait. Emergency phone services don’t currently have a blacklist system, meaning that if a phone calls 911 constantly there’s no way for emergency services to block that caller. In a way, this makes sense: you don’t want to cut anyone off from an essential service, and people with infected phones…
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