VoIP Security

A hacker who compromised phone systems for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) left the government with a US$12,000 phone bill. Companies are leaving their unified communications (UC) systems wide open to hackers, newly published research claims. Polish researchers have developed a range of steganographic techniques which would enable a hacker to hide information in VoIP traffic. VoIPshield Laboratories has alerted companies that market voice over IP systems of new security vulnerabilities. Hackers could run malicious code on the RAZR device by sending a corrupt image by MMS, according to an advisory from TippingPoint  

 

Smaller than my hand. More intelligent than a mini-computer. Able to detonate bombs from remote locations. Look! It’s a camera. It’s an electronic organiser. It’s the “cell phone”! With data becoming more mobile than ever, it is critical that companies have a pervasive security strategy across the corporate network. The arrival of the iPhone could signal the beginning of the end for consumer choice. Now that the marketing blitz and customer hype about the Apple iPhone are reverting back to more realistic levels there comes some not entirely unexpected news... The W/32 Skipi.A worm that nagged Skype users in early September was fairly routine by malware standards. It arrived pretending to be a message from another user, offered erotic pictures, infected machines via malicious links, stole information and moved on to other PCs. Voice over (IP) is a dream concept for companies and organisations all over the world. With voice calls being sent over the internet, money can be saved on long-distance calls and intra-office calls.  

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