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Date: 13 Oct 92 18:11:11
From: mcmullen@well.sf.ca.us
Subject: File 3--News Reports Of 911 Attacks
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1992 OCT 12(NB) -- United Press
International and the Toronto Sun have reported arrests related to
alleged "hacker" attacks on 911 systems. The law enforcement personnel
quoted in the stories were not available for comment due to the
observance of Columbus Day and the Canadian Thanksgiving,
respectively.
The UPI story reports the arrest of a 23 year-old Newark, New Jersey
individual, identified only as "Maverick" for allegedly attempting to
cause havoc through the disruption of 911 service. The story also said
that arrests were expected to be forthcoming in two Maryland
locations.
The Toronto story, written by Kevin Hann, described the arrest of a 15
year old high school student accused of misdirecting emergency
services crews and reporting false medical emergencies. He, according
to quotes attributed to Toronto police officials, used a home computer
to route calls through the United States back to Toronto in an attempt
to confuse security systems.
The New Jersey man arrested was said to be part of a loose network of
computer "hackers" known as the Legion of Doom (LOD) which, according
to the story, engages in telephone fraud by using corporate Private
Branch Exchanges (PBX) systems to illegally place their calls It was
alleged that the group made caused over $100,000 of charges to be
incurred by a Minnesota company within a single month.
The name Legion of Doom has been used repeatedly in recent years by
both law enforcement personnel and others in the last few years.
Robert Riggs, Adam Grant and Franklin Darden, convicted in 1990 for
intrusion in to BellSouth's computer systems were identified by law
enforcement officials as members of the Legion of Doom as was Len
Rose, sentenced in 1991 for "receiving misappropriated UNIX source
code."
Additionally, other persons have identified themselves as members or
ex-members of the Legion of Doom. In June 1991, Chris Goggans, Scott
Chasin and Ken Shulman, announcing the formation of ComSec, a computer
security firm, identified themselves as former LOD-ers "Erik
Bloodaxe", "Doc Holiday", and "Malefactor" (the firm has since gone
out of business). In January 1992, announcing the commercial bulletin
board system Phantom Access, the system owners, Patrick Kroupa and
Bruce Fancher, described themselves as "two former East-Coast Legion
of Doom members" ("Lord Digital" and "Dead Lord").
Fancher told Newsbytes "The Legion of Doom is not and never was an
organization with criminal intent. Any criminal activity that might
have happened was the result of inadvertent actions while exploring. I
never head of Maverick and doubt that he was a member of the group
known as the Legion of Doom. I also doubt that anyone that I knew in
the group would have considered malicious acts involving 911 systems."
(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/19921012)
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