Cybercrime blogger Brian Krebs has been targeted by pranksters who send armed response teams and even heroin to his home. A 19-year-old Canadian prankster has been found guilty of making dozens of fraudulent emergency calls, two of which targeted Krebs. Curtis Gervais used the handle ProbablyOnion as he offered his SWATting services to all and sundry seemingly indifferent to the fact he was endangering the lives of emergency responders and members of the public. He was eventually arrested by Ottawa police after the FBI traced his computer’s IP address to his parents home.”]

