"Physical" DoS?

Ok.. So is this a DoS or not?

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A 21-year-old man from St Neots has been arrested after the main switchboard at Cambridgeshire police HQ was jammed by thousands of calls on Friday.

Concerned callers rang the Huntingdon-based HQ after receiving an email informing them that £399.99 would be taken out of their account to pay for an iPod music player they'd supposedly ordered.

The email also advised recipients that they should call the number listed in the email if they had any queries. The snag was that the number did not belong to some ecommerce outfit, but to Cambridge Police HQ. Its phone lines were jammed.

At the height of the deluge the HQ received more than 500 calls an hour as callers phoned to find out why they were being billed for something they hadn't ordered.

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Pretty nifty I guess if you want to get back against telemarketers. But man. Talk about an interesting side effect of an email spoof.

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HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh he is good. That was a funny, successful Social engineernig DDOS attack on a phone system. I'd put it in that category. a mix between a DDOS and a social engineering ploy. People might think it was stupid....But would THEY ever figure out how to pull that off?

Well, you could constantly fax the number to DoS it :)

-Cheers-

I would say yes because people who had a real emergency wouldn't be able to get through but I must say he was very creative when he thought that one up.

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Originally posted here by DeadAddict
I would say yes because people who had a real emergency wouldn't be able to get through

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Yea, because the Police actually DO something right? :rolleyes:

Come on man how many times has a cop ever jumped up to help you or your friends out?

Thats funny!

Yeah, I would say it would have to be considered a DoS becouse it did what it's name say's, "Denial of Service".

Nice one.. I agree!

haha, this made my day.

Great idea

A similar thing happend a while back on DC101 ( a radio station for those of you not in the Virginia area) The morning dude got in some deep crap with the General Manager of the station. Well the station got considerable traffic to their site by listeners, so when Elliot failed to show up on the air the next day after the incident, people started emailing the GM to put him back on the air. It got to the point that Elliot was put back on the air, and had to ask people to quit emailing the station. Also during one of the last big MS vuln/virus incidents so many people were calling in for help that the system quit accepting new calls into the quene.

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Originally posted here by Syini666
Also during one of the last big MS vuln/virus incidents so many people were calling in for help that the system quit accepting new calls into the quene.

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Especially since the email addresses were spoofed to come from [email protected]

That was pretty funny, but man, I thought I had a lot of time on my hands!

mm might keep that for my Ex,dial a smile??? lol

This is just like something a school in our district did for a senior prank. Some guys put an ad in the newspaper saying something like, "If you are reading this ad, be the first to call this number (###-###-####) and win a thousand dollars! If you cant get through, call this number (### ### ####) for the second place 500$ prize! Brought to you by (some freeservers website, that looked pretty professional)

The numbers were for a rival school's attendance office. Never heard if they got caught or not.

That was quite amusing.

You could do something like that if you had a wardialer dialing the same number over and over during the night. Just imagine how annoying and irriated the recipient would get.

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Note: "Do Not" try the above it will get you into a lot of trouble. It's just an example nothing more.

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Actually I came across a tool like that once... You'd be paging all pagers in the area with a number, and most people would call back... especially if done late at night! I didn't pull off anything like that, this came in the instructions manual :P [I know, very skiddish piece of software]

There is an old program called ToneLoc [ ToneLocator ] which basically is used to dial a range of telephone numbers, and find numbers that are answered by a computer modem. But you can also get other war dialers which you have to pay and are far more sophisticated. Phone Sweep and Telesweep are two of them if I am correct but these are usually used by large businesses since they are very expensive.

If you thought that story of the cops was funny read this story:

From: Slashdot.org

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Posted by michael on Tuesday April 15, @06:24PM
from the click-here-to-unsubscribe dept.
Phronesis writes "Bruce Schneier reports in Crypto-Gram about the slashdot-inspired Post-office DOS attack on SPAM-king Alan Ralsky. More interesting, Schneier writes, is a recent paper on Defending against an internet-based attack on the physical world, which generalizes this attack and discusses how it could be automated and how one might defend against it (you can't stop it, but you could make it harder to effect). From the abstract of the article: 'The attack is, to some degree, a consequence of the availability of private information on the Web, and the increase in the amount of personal information that users must reveal to obtain Web services.'"

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Well guess he got what he deserved didn't he ???

ah this is a nice thing he did i mean you musta admit he did create that one never heard of such attack but eh like year ago i had a chance to see source code of a famous

Fb = Frozen Bot by lynx that kid is arrested now he did made a lil dialer ... for an irc bot so he infected one of my honeypots .. so i was monitoring him by a simple command .dial he would make all the bots in that irc chanel dial the number and as i saw he was prety happy with it coz it was blocking the line


no wonder he is in jail now ;)


ps sorry for spelling mestakes ;)

wow thats great, what a smart man!!! thats halarious, rofl ahahahahahaha sry still laughing- Good post very interesting