KRTV, the CBS affiliate in Great Falls, MT, wasn’t the only local station to startle viewers with a hijacked Emergency Alert System warning of an imminent Zombie attack. Viewers of ABC affiliate ...
The federal investigation into the recent “zombie” hacking of some stations’ EAS equipment continues. Also, there will be another national EAS test, but officials are still learning from the first one ...
ALEXANDRIA, VA.—On Feb. 11 at 2:33 p.m. local time, TV station KRTV in Great Falls, Mont., saw zombies take over the broadcast in the middle of the “Steve Wilkos Show.” As two young people bickered ...
Hackers broke into the Emergency Alert Systems of KRTV Great Falls, Mont. (see video below); WBKP and WNMU Marquette, Mich., airing a warning that dead bodies were “attacking the living” and warned ...
It’s illegal to air the codes or attention signal of an EAS alert in a news story or for other purposes. DJs from WIZM(FM) in La Crosse, Wis. — the LP1 for the market — aired the fake EAS “zombie” ...
Pillsbury attorney Scott Flick notes that the improvements to the Emergency Alert System go a long way toward increasing the risk to broadcasters when an alert is improperly aired, leading to a ...
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