{"id":107,"date":"2009-07-12T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:26:21","slug":"north-carolina-swat-ring-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina SWAT ring busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[A group in North Carolina named partyvanpranks.com has been caught selling pay-per-view of \"swatting\". \"Swatting\" is a phreaker exploit which utilizes Voice Over IP (VOIP) telephone systems to place fraudulent kidnapper or other life threatening prank calls to the 911 system in an attempt to gain the response of local law enforcement Speacial Weapons and Tactics Units (SWAT.)\nAcademic institutions which had network based surveillance camera systems were utilized as the targets. The audio of the prank calls would then be setup in channels on gaming websites.\nProsecutors allege the 16 year old Ashton Lundeby of North Carolina made bomb threats against 13 colleges from mid 2008 to early March 2009.\nIn addition to academic institutions such as Purdue, Florida State U Tallahassee, Clemson U of SC, U of NC Chapel Hill, and Boston College, the partyvanpranks group allegedly also targeted bomb threats to Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Kansas, and the FBI.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}