Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Black Hat details VoIP vulnerabilities

Opinion
Aug 4, 20061 min

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The latest pants-on-fire headlines are out of Black Hat Las Vegas, where today’s topic is VoIP security. Or lack thereof.

The Register reports on a session that covered the latest VoIP security threats and countermeasures, as well as the release of 13 new tools “designed to illustrate generic flaws on insecure VoIP systems.”

The Reg notes the tools all target systems employing SIP and “illustrated how it might be possible to overload phones with spurious traffic, flood IP telephony phones with calls, force hang-ups, reboot phones or reassign devices to other users.” Nifty.

Via The Register