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Hackers Build Honeypots to Defeat FTC Robocaller

11
Aug
2014

The Federal Trade Commission had its representatives in Las Vegas last week, at the DefCon hacking conference, where they set up a contest called Zapping Rachel for hackers to build a honeypot for attracting robocallers.

The Commission offered as much as $17,000 / 12,700 in cash prizes for those that managed to create the honeypot, attacking it and analyzing the data based on algorithms that can predict calls likely to be automated.

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