There are 20 freely available VoIP hacking tools, says VoIP security expert
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As for WiFi technology, IP telephony aren’t that secure. No matter what can argue pro-VoIP vendors. At each hacker convention, the same assertion is claimed: VoIP calls are vulnerable, can be hijacked without either party’s knowledge.
At the ToorCon security conference, some more points were pinpointed. “VoIP systems can fall victim to signal-channel attacks that can fake caller ID, degrade call quality, end calls suddenly, and crash the end device,” says Dustin Trammell, VoIP security researcher at Tipping Point, to Wired News.
And according to Trammell, there are 20 freely available tools to break into VoIP telephone systems. He must be referring to some of the tools unveiled by David Endler and Mark Collier, at the previous Black Hat hacking conference. Endler and Collier showcased 15 tools in their book entitled Hacking VoIP exposed: Voice over IP security secrets and solutions. (For example, at the chapter 6th, there are recipes to flood an Asterisk server, using IAX Flood.)
Anyway, it’s a confirmation of what we all supposed: VoIP system flaws aren’t that difficult to exploit, and tools are growing as VoIP is becoming a mainstream telecommunications system.
Oct 5, 2006 | By Nuno
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