Throwback Saturday Night: Swatting is becoming a huge problem

With the advant of technology, swatting has become a big problem. Take the Kansas case of 2019 where a Los Angeles man pranked a Kansas home and sent the swat team down there to kill someone. We’ll talk about an article tomorrow that recently passed our desk as well as the landscape.

Here are the notations for tomorow.


Welcome to the podcast. Man charged in 20-plus calls of false threats in US, Canada — including Pa. is the article you’ll want in today’s security hour. Here is the tech blog article on the same story.

Swatting is a big deal and now, technology is a part of the problem. What exactly should we do about this?


Our Listen page on the mix has links for server 2, where the security hour plays as part of Throwback. Program with music starts at 7, and the security hour is at 8.

All times station time which is central.

See you there!

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