Japan’s False Emergency Alert for a 9.9 Earthquake Wasn’t a Cyberattack
THE SO WHAT
False alarms at national scale show how brittle alerting and trust can be even without an attacker in the loop. If you operate critical notification systems, you need both technical safeguards and a comms playbook for when the system itself becomes the crisis.
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