A widely used panic alarm handed out to at least 10,000 thousand elderly people in the UK can be remotely controlled by sending it simple SMS commands, researchers at Fidus Information Security have discovered. The alarm – a small plastic pendant device with an SOS button in the middle – connects to 2G/GPRS cellular networks, which means it can be used anywhere without the need for an intermediary base station and provides a live status feed.

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