VoIP Vulnerabilities
I know I am a broken record, or kicking a dead horse, or some other analogy about stating the same obvious thing over and over, but as the world adopts VoIP for voice communications they need to be...
View ArticleBeware Extension ’9011′
If you have ever used a corporate phone system, you are probably familiar with the concept of dialing ’9′ to get an outside line. That allows employees to simply dial extensions to communicate...
View ArticleExploiting VoIP for Toll Fraud
Toll fraud is nothing new. Pretty much since there have been telephones, or at least enterprise telephone systems, attackers have sought to somehow hijack or piggyback on them in order to place toll...
View ArticleProtecting VoIP Against Three Common Threats
There are a number of way, theoretically, that a VoIP communications system could pose a security risk to an enterprise. Let’s face it, while the network administrators have been in the trenches...
View ArticleSumming Up VoIP Security for 2008
A lot happened in 2008. We had what seemed to be a marathon Presidential campaign season capped off with the election of the first African-American to be President of the United States. We had a...
View ArticleAttackers Place $120,000 in Unauthorized Phone Calls
Your phone bill varies from month to month in many cases. Actually- maybe not. I have been using Vonage for my home phone service for about 5 years now and the flat fee is what it is. I don’t pay for...
View ArticleVoIP Fraud Meets Terrorism
A recent report in the Wall Street Journal details the bust of a VoIP toll fraud ring in The Phillipines. According to the WSJ article: A federal grand jury in New Jersey indicted three people Friday,...
View ArticleThe Rising Risk of Toll Fraud
Toll fraud is not new. Toll fraud has existed in some form, more or less, since telecom providers have charged customers for placing calls. But, just as technology and the computer / Internet...
View Article2.6 Million Lost Jobs Result of Communications Fraud
Did I get your attention? I thought I might. Now, let’s step back and look at the perhaps questionable or dubious math I used to arrive at this sensational conclusion. A recent worldwide survey by the...
View ArticleImplementing Security When Its Too Late Is a Double-Negative
Implementing security controls after an attack or compromise of data is like shutting the barn door after the horse has already escaped…but worse. Getting serious about VoIP and unified communications...
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