Monday, October 22, 2007

Phones Aren't Safe Either, Hackers Say


By Marty graham October 21, 2007

Hacking VoIP is easy, says John Kindervag, and it gets you well past the phone. Using penetration tests propounded by a tool called VoIP Hopper, he and partner Jason Ostrom got well past the phone into the corporate systems that support it from hotel rooms, corporate offices and so on.

“The whole catalyst behing VoIP Hopper is we were in a hotel room with a Cisco phone,” Ostrom says. “We were (able to get) into the (hotel's) corporate network and got access to their financial and corporate network and recorded other phone calls.”

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