Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was ...

Brazilians wake to fake alien attack alerts on 19 June after hackers slipped through a backdoor the FCC has spent years studying Paweł/Pixabay A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert ...

Brazil's civil defense authority said Saturday it had disabled its mobile phone emergency alert system after a possible cyberattack sent false alert messages to millions of people overnight. "The ...

A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert system and pushed fake 'alien attack' warnings to millions of phones overnight has handed cybersecurity experts a working demonstration of a ...