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DHS Warns of ‘TDos’ Extortion Attacks on Public Emergency Networks

April 1, 2013

As if emergency responders weren’t already overloaded: Increasingly, extortionists are launching debilitating attacks designed to overwhelm the telephone networks of emergency communications centers and personnel, according to a confidential alert jointly issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.