UC & VoIP Security - News and Events

This daily updated site lists the latest news articles published in leading publications on VoIP Security, Unified Communications Security and Toll Fraud.

Regulator urges caution after an increase in the hacking process on VoIP.

Dial through fraud (DTF) is a form of toll fraud that involves a computer hacker dialing into a company's phone system and seizing its lines. Typically, smaller ...

The hacking of telephone systems is known as 'phreaking', 'toll fraud' or ' dial through fraud '. The Business Crime Reduction Centre in Sheffield claims to ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently issued a bulletin titled “TDoS Attacks on Public Safety Communications” and while it was “Law Enforcement Use Sensitive/For Official Use Only” a copy was obtained by and also .

This resulted ...

You might recall when Rapid7's HD Moore alerted the public to the dangers of poorly configured video conferencing equipment being connected to the Internet. Moore highlighted the need to secure the configuration after showing that “thousands ...

Few SMEs could recover from phone bills 10 times bigger than usual.

This week on the Digium blog we are discussing security in the context of SMB unified communications. In today's post we'll explore some common threats and ...

Call centers must educated themselves on VoIP security . The livelihood of their business depends greatly on the performance and reliability of their network.

As long as there have been telephones and charges for conducting calls, there has been toll fraud . In the 1970's and 1980's, hackers used a technique called ...