Edwin Pena, 27, was convicted in February to plan a plan to attack more than 15 companies telecommunications and then reroute calls to their networks without cost alguno.También must pay more than 1 million dollars in restitution, and will be deported once his sentence is served.
Penalty was convicted in the United States for the District of New Jersey, on charges of hacking and computer wire fraud District Court judge Susan Wigenton.
The scam their victims, including vendors of VoIP Net2Phone, NovaTel and Go2Tel, more than 1.4 million dollars in losses cost.
Penalty is the first person to be charged by the American authorities with VoIP hacking, but avoided almost enjuiciamiento.Omite bail after for their arrest and only captured when Mexican girlfriend turned him in early 2009.
Crag worked with Spokane, Washington, hacker Robert Moore to launch attacks by brute force against networks of VoIP.Moore wrote codes, which then they were used to allow traffic on networks of computer programs that, again and again, tried to guess these codes importante.Algunos prefix were only four digits.
During a period of four months in 2005, Moore released analysis of more than 6 million network of AT & T, looking for ports vulnerable. AT & T helped authorities with their research, but was not named as a victim of fraud.
Moore previously received a two-year sentence for his role in the scheme.
Once you had access to pirated networks, Pena operated as if it were a legitimate phone Internet wholesaler selling telephone services companies in discount rates deeply.
Robert McMillan covers general technology, and computer security news breaking for IDG News Service.siga Robert on Twitter at @ bobmcmillan. Roberto e-mail address is robert_mcmillan@idg.com
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