US 911 Emergency System Can Be Crippled By a Mobile Botnet (helpnetsecurity.com)

An anonymous reader writes: What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911 emergency system across the US? According to researchers from Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev's Cyber-Security Research Center, as little as 200,000 compromised mobile phones located throughout the country. The phones, made to repeatedly place calls to the 911 service, would effect a denial-of-service attack that would made one third (33%) of legitimate callers give up on reaching it. And if the number of those phones is 800,000, over two thirds (67%) would do the same.

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Bet it takes a smaller botnet for Israel

[Righ]

Perhaps it's time for some American 'researchers' to publicise details on how simple it would be to DoS the Israel 100/101/102 emergency services.