American residents of Dallas on the night from Friday to Saturday was awakened by the noise 156 sirens of emergency services, launched at the same time.
urban infrastructure paralysis is, it is difficult to imagine today to present. Such paralysis can be caused by, eg, the result of cyber attacks. - To what extent have experienced something similar last weekend residents of Dallas.
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Dallas city officials have confirmed, that unknown persons were able to gain control of the 156 alarm sirens and run them for a half hour on the night of Friday to Saturday. To respond to the attack, workers were forced to completely disable the siren system, that could, but, Luckily, It did not cause any untoward results.
It is not known, who and why carried out this action. May be, Group (gifted) Children like to have fun, and maybe some good hacker wanted to show the city, that there are flaws in its security system. Anyway, According to the official position of the attack is not necessary, probably, none of the residents of the city.
Of course, in fact it looks like a silly joke, but if you do not use it at night when everyone is asleep and during the hurricane, the consequences will be very unpredictable – able to lead people into a panic.
