StateScoop: The San Francisco Department of Technology announced Thursday that it has patched a vulnerability to the city-county's public siren system that would have allowed a malicious actor to take control of the system and potentially cause citywide panic.
The city first learned of the vulnerability in February after being notified by researchers from San Francisco-based security firm Bastille. A subsequent disagreement between the local government and the firm regarding how to handle the vulnerability's remediation resulted in the two parting ways to release separate public notices of what was uncovered.
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