Oops: Hacker Breaks Into FEMA Phone System

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via MSNBC.com (AP).

[snip]

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.

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.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26319201/

- - ferg

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