Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phreak Attacks Southern Bell/Delray Beach, FL Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 89 22:19:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 199, message 2 of 8 > Southern Bell Telephone Company officials have acknowledged that a hacker- > phreak invaded a central office over the weekend, using a computer > and modem, and reprogrammed their computer in such a way that calls > intended for the Probation Office were instead routed to a New > York-based phone sex line. Of course, after Caller ID is here, it will be possible for these people to change the number that they are calling from. I would suggest that detecting this type of hacking would be much more difficult particularly because the person could change it repeatedly. I can just imagine trying to convince a judge that you really did not make that call; that it was due to a hacker. David Gast gast@cs.ucla.edu {uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!{ucla-cs,cs.ucla.edu}!gast