Cisco Issues critical Patches

The communications equipment manufacturer has issued two critical patches to it’s widely used IP telephony software that makes a system vulnerable to DoS attacks. The discovery was made by an IBMISS X-Force security team when they were testing Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (formerly CallManager) for security flaws. They also released information that though the weakness [...]

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VoIP -Open Wide to Attack

Security analysts in the US are finding that most American firms who have shifted to using VoIP over their standard phone services are not implementing enough security in he form of intrusion prevention and detection software. As said in other security reviews, people tend to be complacent and will only take action when it is [...]

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VoIP Call Recording

Good news for Mac Users for VoIP recording software is now available from VONaLink. SoloRecord is a good addition to your arsenal of VoIP software and allows the use of a computer for applications such as dispute settlements and other incidents where recordings of customer transactions with staff are vital as evidence. The normal [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip – Vishing (Part 5)

These hackers use these connections (being anonymous makes investigating as hard as looking for a needle in a haystack) to put up multiple IP Session tunnels with several devices from within the providers network spawning up to tens of thousands of messages a minute which is a number equal to the traffic of 10million users [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip – MOCS (Part 4)

As soon as they hit the market and are picked up and used they are attacked sometimes revealing many security holes that leave them vulnerable to attack. They have targeted the Microsoft Office Communications server’s VoIP client and have done so regularly prompting the release of several patches and component upgrades to them keeping Microsoft [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip – VoIP Eavesdropping (Part 3)

Voip Eavesdropping or spying is similar to installing a phone tap onto a phone line with an intruder listening or recording information as the signal is in transit through the medium. On the VoIP standpoint, this would have a hacker tapping into the data as it travels through the internet recording the conversation into the [...]

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