and then there is also this:
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Subject: VoIP Hacker Sentenced to 10 Years
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:15:17 -0400
From: First Alerts <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
*VoIP hacker sentenced to 10 years. *
A Venezuelan citizen was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. federal prison
September 24 for hacking into the networks of telecommunications
companies and then routing millions of minutes of voice over IP calls
over their systems.
The 27-year-old admitted in February that he pocketed more than $1m in
the scam, in which he posed as a legitimate reseller of long-distance
calling services.
By scanning networks of AT&T and other companies, he was able to
identify unprotected ports through which he could transmit more than 10
million minutes of unauthorized calls.
The suspect, who spent much of his time in Miami, Florida, was described
as the mastermind behind the operation.
For technical help in identifying vulnerable networks, he turned to a
Spokane, Washington hacker. He was previously sentenced to 2 years in
prison for his role, which included performing more than 6 million scans
on AT&T’s network alone over a 5-month span in 2005.
Article posted at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/voip_hacker_sentenced/
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