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[ NNSquad ] VoIP phone hackers pose public safety threat
VoIP phone hackers pose public safety threat
http://j.mp/13DkBIt (L.A. Times)
"The demand stunned the hospital employee. She had picked up the
emergency room's phone line, expecting to hear a dispatcher or a
doctor. But instead, an unfamiliar male greeted her by name and then
threatened to paralyze the hospital's phone service if she didn't pay
him hundreds of dollars. Shortly after the worker hung up on the
caller, the ER's six phone lines went dead. For nearly two days in
March, ambulances and patients' families calling the San Diego
hospital heard nothing but busy signals. The hospital had become a
victim of an extortionist who, probably using not much more than a
laptop and cheap software, had single-handedly generated enough calls
to tie up the lines."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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