A fairly large number of critical infrastructure organisations have been found relying on unsecured pagers for communication between employees, which security experts believe could potentially expose them to hack and espionage. According to a study, employees at nuclear plants, chemical and electricity plants, chip makers and others still use unsecured wireless pagers, in part, to communicate about various industrial control systems. The information that plant employees communicate over pagers include names, contact details of staff, diagnostic details of plants and other such sensitive information, which according to security researchers, can be targeted by malicious hackers.
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