Hacker Breaks Into FEMA Phone System
An AP newswire article by Eileen Sullivan, via MSNBC, reports that:
A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.More here.
The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski.
FEMA is part of Homeland Security, which in 2003 put out a warning about this very vulnerability.
posted by Fergie @ 8/20/2008 06:01:00 PM
2 Comments:
Please stop calling "phone phreaks" "hackers" they are 2 different things
Thank you
Can you elaborate the difference between "phone phreaks" and "hackers"?
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