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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

May 24, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Andrew Finch, Associated Press, Call of Duty, Casey S. Viner, Cosmo the God, Eric Taylor, fatal swatting, Mir Islam, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Shane M. Gaskill, swautistic, Tyler Barriss

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:45:52 +0000

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.

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Detecting Cloned Cards at the ATM, Register

May 14, 2018 admin All About Skimmers, Associated Press, EMV, FBI, gift card fraud, NYPD, Patrick Traynor, Security Tools, University of Florida, Walmart

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:24:38 +0000

Much of the fraud involving counterfeit credit, ATM debit and retail gift cards relies on the ability of thieves to use cheap, widely available hardware to encode stolen data onto any card’s magnetic stripe. But new research suggests retailers and ATM operators could reliably detect counterfeit cards using a simple technology that flags cards which appear to have been altered by such tools.