Tech | December 02, 2009 | 5 comments

Swatting Exploits Use Technology To Harm

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Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service into dispatching an emergency response team. Caller ID spoofing technologies are used to send law officers on bogus calls along with social engineering and phone phreaking techniques. Most people trust caller ID and are unaware of caller ID spoofing. This is obviously a flawed system ripe for fraud.

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