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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This is a test of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau. The FCC just heard unauthorized EAS tones on your station. If this was not a real emergency, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau will be contacting you ...