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Pager Explosion: Cybersecurity Insights and Afterthoughts

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The 2024 Lebanon pager explosions represent one of the most unexpected and devastating technological incidents in recent history。 On September 17 and 18, 2024, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and parts of Syria, resulting in 42 deaths and more than 3500 injuries。 These handheld communication devices, previously regarded as secure and low-profile, were rigged with concealed explosives and remotely triggered by attackers。 The explosions primarily occurred when users either responded to the pager's signal or interacted with the walkie-talkies, leading to devastating injuries。 Hospitals across Lebanon were overwhelmed, as victims arrived with severe trauma, including facial and hand lacerations, blindness, and other injuries [1]。

Chuan Sheng、Wanlun Ma、Qing-Long Han、Wei Zhou、Xiaogang Zhu、Sheng Wen、Yang Xiang、Fei-Yue Wang

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Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China|Department of Engineering Science, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China

2024

IEEE/CAA journal of automatica sinica

IEEE/CAA journal of automatica sinica

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年,卷(期):2024.11(12)
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