Both agencies warned that software and equipment vulnerabilities could allow hackers to transmit fake emergency messages or disrupt real ones. FCC Cyber Threats Emergency Response Homeland Security ...

(WHTM) – Anyone with a cellphone in the United States will hear an alarm go off on their device on October 4. The message on all consumer phones will read “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless ...

ATLANTA — Come Oct. 4, there’s no need to be alarmed. Next Wednesday is a scheduled test of the U.S.’ Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts. The two alert systems will undergo a test to ...

The nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS), which sends alerts through mobile phones, will be tested later this year. The EAS causes phones and tablets to vibrate, read the alert aloud and emit a ...

A 10-second 'Armageddon alert' siren will sound on millions of UK mobile phones later this year as part of a test of the government's emergency alert system. The emergency alert is used to warn if ...

Optimum cable customers in Morris County were startled Thursday by blue-screen interruptions in their regular television programs announcing an "emergency" that turned out to be a false alarm. The ...

Tens of millions of mobile phones in the UK received a message and sounded a loud alarm in the second nationwide test of the ...