Hacking the sirens!

“If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders”
Dan Farmer

Alarm display

Imagine waking up in the morning and commuting to work when you hear the sirens all over the city. In panic, you pull over and try to search social media for clues and find nothing. Your survival instinct kicks in and start calling people who can provide no additional information. This is the hypothetical situation that is seen and observed during calamities or dooms day Hollywood Movies. Yet this became a reality today in Dallas when hackers pulled off a stunt activating all the sirens in the city. The hack was very sophisticated that the city officials are scratching their heads to understand how the system was breached whether it is an insider or outsider job. While we wait for the reports, one thing is for certain that the hackers continue to push their limits in everything we do.