2011年9月26日星期一

Hacker's swatting attacks calls police Langley home

Langley, bc, fake 911 call emergency response team, along with his family around the House after police in the police as their complaint about computer hackers has finally taken seriously.

But it is not the first time the kind of incident. Boat show to be a part of a trend dubbed severe prank call — in disguise the origin of the 911 calls using a technique called spoofing or unsuspecting home emergency response SWAT team tricking the police to transfer.

Louis gray has been constantly harassed by her family and her son by hackers for the half year to Youtube after posting the video. Since then meets all over the Web on their phone numbers, addresses, and email, she says.

Then on Monday, gray claimed that hackers used to call her son's computer account, and that he had killed several people hostage in their home through your computer holding the family's more police.

Police emergency response team when she opened her door, Gray was surrounded by.

"Tell me to put my hands on a gun pointing at the neighbor's yard and all along was a SWAT team," he said.

Police had seized a computer hacker to find the elusive gray. But gray says she went to the RCMP police harassment started for the first time, she ignores it.

"I'm disappointed, but I am assured that they are looking at it now. It's too bad because we don't want this person seriously this was done for them, "he said.

Cyber crime experts from the boat's second such case in recent days, cold case, actually.

Well known Internet crime specialists to her house after you have created a bogus 911 call someone in New Jersey, was surrounded by SWAT teams on Sunday.

In 2008, in Washington State, California, was sentenced to three years in prison in the men's boat fined $ 14,000 for.

Peter Cassidy, anti-phishing working group, according to a study that is a member of the non-profit has become more common boat Internet crime.

"Call someone they referred to the local police to exploit the target," Cassidy says.

The caller also gives the total number of claims, the hostage taker, all the while the home address to pose hoping Police SWAT raid on the home of the unsuspecting target will respond.

Phone call in order to convince the police that a real, real ID spoofing to hide the origin of the swatters are called simple tricks.

In the case of Langley, the police came calling on the phone with area code in California.

However, Cassidy can just as easily call destination to display says swatters at home, use one of several companies on the Internet, they spoof the caller ID to show at what number comes up, select the allow callers to provide free services

Cassidy held a virtual monopoly, with a handful of major phone companies, says police call through to be able to track the origin of these calls the industry so that but would have been very difficult to keep track of the torn now.

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