According to researchers at Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, VoIP software like Skype may be the ideal disguise for hackers to infiltrate people’s computers.
The Communications Research Network believes that it is only a matter of time before the technique becomes mainstream and becomes the same problem that instant messaging has where hackers […]
Research and Markets has announced a report entitled VoIP Security to their offering.
The VoIP market in 2005 has been growing steadily as customers begin to accept the benefits of converging their voice, data and video networks in favor of a single infrastructure. Influential partners within both the vendor and end-user communities have, however, begun voicing […]
Internet Security Systems today announced it has provided protection for flaws the company discovered in VoIP technology offered by Cisco.
The most recent VoIP security flaws discovered by ISS’ X-Force(R) team lie in Cisco’s Call Manager, an essential component to the functioning of any Cisco VoIP deployment, performing tasks such as call signalling and call […]
Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) is set for rapid expansion but is also held back by lack of interoperability, according to Intel.
Over the next five years there will be rapid migration to adopting VoIP just to lower cost, said Wolfgang Moeseneder, network architect of the mobility group at Intel.
But the lack of interoperability today is great. Its […]
BorderWare will showcase the industry’s first SIP-based technology designed to protect Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications from hackers, spoofers and malicious threats. BorderWare has been invited to demonstrate SIPassure, its application-level firewall, on stage at DEMO@15!, one of the industry’s premiere events focused on emerging technologies and new products.
“As the VoIP revolution unfolds, users […]
The software flaw affects only Cisco routers running IOS Telephony Services, CallManager Express or Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST). These services use Cisco’s Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP, or Skinny), which controls signaling between Cisco IP telephones and CallManager call processors. The IOS bug could allow an attacker to send malformed packets to the Skinny […]