Security blogger hit by cyberattack, police raid

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SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS. A security blogger is hit by a denial of service attack and raided by police in a well-planned prank. Police car image courtesy of Flickr.
Over the weekend, security blogger Brian Krebs recounted his experience of having his blog attacked and his home raided by police at the same time. Krebs, formerly of The Washington Post and now of Krebs on Security, discussed the simultaneous cyberattack and misdirected police raid on his home last March 14. Krebs notes that while the denial of service attack on his site didn’t last long as he hired a company to protect against those things, the “SWATting,” or practice of tricking actual police to raid otherwise innocent people, was of more immediate concern. Krebs believes the DDoS attack and the “SWATting” were related to an earlier report he made about underground sites peddling credit reports and Social Security numbers.

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