Posted on 06/21/2024 11:36:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Tuesday afternoon, Massachusetts experienced a statewide disruption in its emergency calling system, caused by a malfunctioning firewall from the state’s 911 vendor, Comtech.
Ars Technica reports that the Massachusetts government issued a press release this week detailing the cause of the two-hour 911 outage that affected the entire state. According to the statement, a preliminary investigation conducted by the State 911 Department and Comtech revealed that the interruption was the result of a firewall malfunction. This security feature, designed to protect against cyberattacks and hacking, inadvertently prevented emergency calls from reaching dispatch centers, also known as Public Safety Answer Points (PSAPs).
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Kaspersky firewall ? LOL
Probably wouldn’t have failed if it was Kaspersky, which is precisely why the US Government just banned it.
I did firewall work at one time in my career: “That which is not permitted is denied”. At the beginning everything is denied, and ports are opened up as required relative to the packet type. I guess these boys permitted too many packet types on too many tcp/ip ports.
Single point of failure. These Comtech pikers should be ashamed of themselves. Thats assuming they’re being “truthful” in their disclosure.
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