Emergency Alert System encoders will likely be sending the wrong time starting Sunday, March 11 unless station engineers either upgrade their firmware or manually adjust the unit to reflect the ...

FEMA, in coordination with the FCC, will conduct a test of the Emergency Alert System on August 7. The test will come at precisely 2:20pm Eastern. But, a backup date is in place, in the event of a ...

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. – July 13, 2011 – Digital Alert Systems, a division of Monroe Electronics and a leading innovator of next-generation Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Alert Systems (EAS), ...

Monroe Electronics’ Digital Alert Systems, which manufactures Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Alert Systems (EAS), announced a new technology partnership with RCS that will improve EAS ...

LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. — May 16, 2012 — Digital Alert Systems and Monroe Electronics today announced that they have logged an industry milestone by receiving the first FCC approval for certified ...

There, I’ve said it. By regularly conducting live testing of a one-way, non-authenticated messaging system we have managed to desensitize the public to the warnings while simultaneously exposing them ...

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 ...

EAS participants should be permitted to use intermediary devices which would allow broadcasters to economically meet the CAP1.2 requirement. … CAP converters should be classified as “stand-alone ...

Hackers have the capability to exploit a software flaw in the Emergency Alert System to issue fake warnings over radio and TV stations, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns. 'We recently ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WASHINGTON: The FCC hopes to have its EAS reporting system online early this week. Greg Cooke, ...

In its continuing quest to perfect, or at least improve, the nation’s emergency alert system (EAS), the FCC made several rule changes to its EAS procedures that will impact radio broadcasters. These ...