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Every Phone Number in the “Phone Losers Association Zine Collection”

Fans of phreaking probably know about the Phone Losers Association, which published an online BBS zine about the now lost art of phone hacking. You can download the entire zine collection, which includes 451 phone numbers, listed below.

These were pulled using some regex magic:

The numbers could probably be checked against a database like OpenCNAM to see if any are still valid, but I didn’t want to pay $10 (their minimum) just to find out.

Here’s a bit of the list, all of which is after the break:

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Paying for Russian Hacking

Interesting article on Wired today including a list of prices for hiring a Russian hacker:

  • Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
  • SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
  • Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
  • Email spam: $10 per one million emails
  • Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
  • SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages
  • Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
  • DDoS botnet: $700
  • ZeuS source code: $200-$500
  • Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
  • Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
  • Hacking Gmail account: $162
  • Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
  • Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
  • Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
  • Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000

Via: Wired