Brian Krebs Gets SWATted:))

[dicksi]

There's probably nothing quite like opening your front door in a T-shirt and gym shorts, only to find a heavily armed SWAT team facing you down.

That's exactly what happened to well-known security blogger Brian Krebs, who was "swatted" yesterday (March 14). He fell victim to a very dangerous prank call that sent police rushing to his home preparing for an armed standoff.

"As soon as I open the front door, I hear this guy yelling at me, behind a squad car, pointing a pistol at me saying: 'Don't move. Put your hands up,'" Krebs told Ars Technica's Dan Goodin. "The first thing I said was, 'You've got to be kidding me.'"

Emergency dispatch operators had received a 911 call that seemed to come from Krebs' phone. The caller said he was Krebs, that Russian jewel thieves had broken into his northern Virginia home and shot his wife, and that he was hiding in a closet.

Police first called to confirm the emergency, but Krebs, busy cooking for a dinner party, didn't pick up. So a dozen officers from the Fairfax County Police Department rushed to Krebs' house.

Krebs told Goodin that police had sealed off the street and had dogs circling the house. Krebs allowed himself to be taken into custody and let police search the premises.

"I think they figured out pretty quickly they'd been had," Krebs tweeted yesterday after the incident. "But [it's] never fun to have assault rifles pointed at you."

Not unexpected

Ironically, Krebs had expected to be swatted eventually. Eastern European cybercriminals about whom he's written have often launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on his website, and more recently have made personal threats against him

Top Security Blogger 'Swatted' in Dangerous Prank | Phone Spoofing | TechNewsDaily.com

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damn russians

[meinhard]

Da-l in pizda masii cu site-ul lui cu tot, a ramas fara servici de ceva timp si traieste de pe urma site-ului, reclame si ce mai e pe acolo, nu mai stie ce sa faca si sa scrie sa fie bagat in seama. I-am scris acum ceva timp sa facem link excahnge si mi-a spus ca nu citeste site-ul meu asa ca da-l in gura masii de poponar..

Altii mai mari il citesc, el nu-l citeste in schimb a pus niste trompete de site-uri la blogroll.

Edited March 16, 2013 by meinhard