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Thomas Shaddack November 06, 2009 12:43 1 Thumb-up
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Caller ID follies and SWAT teams, hacking PBX

There was a case of a guy tricking a 911 system to believe he calls from another place, and then social-engineering the police to send a SWAT unit to the premises.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/138591/couple_swarmed_by_swat_team_after_911_hack.html

A lot of possibilities along these lines opens when we take in account the often poor security (e.g. default or weak passwords) in today's low-cost PBX systems.

Another trick with hacking PBX is in issuing calls from them to paid lines and cashing in potentially fairly fat profits.

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Kris S. November 06, 2009 12:58 Flag

Why do people do this? (sigh)

Thomas Shaddack November 06, 2009 12:46 Flag

Update, calling a police unit to swarm a victim is known as swatting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

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