Teen accused of hacking emergency 911 system
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Bogus call sends SWAT team to home of unsuspecting family A 19-year-old Washington state man is due in court on Monday to face accusations he hacked into emergency 911 systems and faked a call that a sent SWAT team to the home of a sleeping family 750 miles away.â¦
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The federal agency took the action to finger teen as the person behind a rash of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school, court documents revealed this week.
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The claim comes after an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old who died after his cell phone apparently exploded.
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A 17-year-old boy was arrested and police found weapons, ammunition and bomb-making paraphernalia in his home after a tip that he was making threats online against his high school, fellow students and an officer assigned to the building.
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German student, Sven Jaschan, has been formally charged with computer sabotage, data manipulation and disruption of public systems by German prosecutors.
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STOWE, Vt. - A former volunteer firefighter is facing charges that he made a series of false 911 calls so he could watch fire engines race toward fabricated emergencies.
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A Pennsylvania coroner faces charges after allegedly giving local reporters access to a county 911 computer system, giving them improper access to confidential police information that they then used for their news stories.
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A Washington state teenager is facing 18 years in prison on charges that he used his PC to access Orange County, Calif.&#39;s 911 emergency response system and convinced the sheriff&#39;s department into storming an area couple&#39;s home with a heavily armed SWAT team.Randall Ellis, 19, of Mulkiteo, Wash., is not only facing charges of unauthorized computer access, but he&#39;s also facing assault charges by proxy, meaning that authorities want Ellis to be convicted as if he, and not the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team, pointed weapons at the victims.The incident took place late in the evening of March 29, when Ellis allegedly used his computer to call the Orange County 911 dispatch and, during the course of a 38-minute telephone conversation, convinced dispatchers that he had murdered someone on the premises and was about to do it again.Within minutes, fire, police. and a helicopter team had been dispatched to the home of the Lake Forest, Calif., couple, whom authorities declined to identify.&quot;They surrounded the home, inside were a husband and wife and their two toddlers,&quot; said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman with the Orange County District Attorney&#39;s office. &quot;The husband heard rustling outside of his home and believed it to be a prowler. He took a knife and went into the backyard. Instead of finding a prowler, he found a SWAT team pointing assault rifles at him.&quot;&quot;It really easily could have escalated into an innocent person being killed,&quot; she added. &quot;We&#39;re lucky that they didn&#39;t shoot him.&quot;Emami characterized Ellis as a &quot;computer hacker,&quot; but declined to explain exactly how the attack was carried out. &quot;One of the reasons that we&#39;re not disclosing exactly how he did it is because we don&#39;t want to teach other computer hackers how to do it,&quot; she said.Still, it&#39;s not clear that Ellis&#39;s alleged hack involved anything more complicated than tricking the 911 system into thinking he was calling from the Lake Forest couple&#39;s number. County officials said Wednesday that he did not exploit a technical flaw in the 911 system&#39;s software.The technique that Ellis used &quot;doesn&#39;t require any special skills,&quot; said Jim Amormino, a spokesman with the Orange County Sheriff&#39;s Department. &quot;The way he did it: I am not computer savvy, but I can do it.&quot;The March 29 incident cost the county an estimated $18,000, Amormino said.Low-cost calling card services such as SpoofCard have been available for years, allowing customers to make it appear that their calls are coming from any number they wish.In June, four people were charged in Texas with operating a chat line where they taught people how to make false 911 calls, sending emergency response teams to targeted victims, a practice known as &quot;swatting.&quot; In a June 12 swatting incident, a swatter called up Cleburne, Texas&#39;s 911 dispatch using a commercially available spoof card and Skype, then &quot;stated that he had shot and killed members of the family, that he was holding hostages, that he was using hallucinogenic drugs, that he was armed with an AK-47, and he demanded $50,00 and transportation across the U.S. border to Mexico,&quot; according to court filings.Authorities said that Ellis had made nearly 200 fake 911 calls to dispatch systems in California, Arizona, Washington, and Pennsylvania.He is set to be arraigned Monday in Santa Ana, Calif.
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Gets firm with firmware A teen hacker known for his deftness with iPhones has figured out how to unlock models running the latest firmware versions by cracking a protection that that has frustrated hackers for weeks.â¦
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Authorities have charged a teenage boy who said he planned to hijack a commercial jetliner in an attempt to commit suicide, an FBI spokesman told CNN late Thursday.
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Police on Long Island, New York, said they arrested two teens on Friday on charges of conspiring to attack staff and students at a high school.
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A teenager has been accused of using a stolen mobile phone to swamp dispatchers with hundreds of bogus 911 calls over a matter of weeks, at times talking of killing some of the responding officers he could see.
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Hackers are coming out of the woodwork, taking aim at the Apple iPhone. Just this week, three Israeli hackers claimed they unlocked the iPhone, making it possible for iPhone owners to use their shiny new mobile devices without AT&T activation. The Israeli hacker coup follows closely on the heals of a similar story about 17-year-old George Hotz, the New Jersey teen who set iPhone users free from the tethers of AT&T.
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A 15-year-old Indian boy who allegedly performed surgery to set a record gives himself up to police.
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A Cooper City, Fla., high school student has been arrested and charged with changing the grades of 19 students.
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A teenager is due to appear at Newry Youth Court charged with dangerous driving causing two deaths.
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An 18-year-old firefighter was charged with setting a weekend blaze that damaged a one-room Amish schoolhouse &#151; a fire he claimed to have discovered by driving past in the dead of night.