CallCentric Victim of Devastating Two-Week DDoS Attack > Law Enforcement

reply to dcurrey

Re: Law Enforcement

What does size matter when criminality is involved?

If someone illegally breaks into your Mom & Pop website or Gmail account, and defaces and/or deletes all its content, violating numerous anti-wiretapping and other statues, it is highly unlikely the FBI will dedicate any of their resources to track down the perpetrator. Perhaps your local police department will do you a favor and write-up a report; but they probably lack the necessary resources -- both technical and manpower -- to do much more.

The question is whether CallCentric is on anyone's radar. Outside of the VoIP enthusiast world and small business', they are a relatively unknown company in the wide world out there.

Have ma and pop actually notified the FBI? My guess is that ma and pop, at best, file a police report. More likely, ma and pop hire some two-bit "security guy" to fix their problem and then put the website back online.

Even if Ma and Pa did notify the FBI it is unlikely the FBI would put much manpower into an investigation.

And when CallCentric called the FBI, the operator taking the report never heard of CallCentric, does not know whether CC is a mom and pop operation or just some entrepreneur dipping his toes in the business. So she simply files a report as she does the dozens of reports she gets every week of some hacker breaking into some website or business network.

How many people does it take to investigate a single webserver breach? One? Not a lot of manpower is really required?

I'm sure CC's involvement with the FBI is a little more than calling an operator and dropping off a few details about the act.

reply to josephf