Krebs OnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reports that its author appears in the debut episode of Netflix's documentary series "Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet," which premieres June 15 and opens with the harassment tactic of swatting - fake bomb threats or hostage calls to police. The post recounts the author's own swatting incidents, including a March 2013 case in Fairfax County, Va. where police surrounded his home and handcuffed him at gunpoint, and cites the 2019 sentencing of serial swatter Tyler Barriss to 20 years for a phony call that led to a Kansas resident's shooting death.
Key Takeaway: Swatting turns a phone call into armed police at a target's door, and the source's own examples show the stakes: a 2013 incident that put the author on the ground at gunpoint, and a 2017 hoax call that ended in the shooting death of an innocent Kansas resident.
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