Heard the bad news over your VoIP communications? Ottawa-based VoIPshield Systems is warning that media stream attacks could hit Microsoft Office Communications Server, Office Communicator and Windows Live Messenger. Microsoft estimates over 250 million computers worldwide run those applications, so this represents a potentially gaping security hole.
Why does it matter? Hackers can disrupt phone service, eavesdrop on private calls and of course steal private customer information.
VoIPshield has some pretty decent videos demonstrating how a hacker might be able to cause a breach. Will organizations be any more proactive about this threat than the hazards to networks and web applications? I'd like to be optimistic...
In related news, there's an excellent roundup of top 10 mistakes IT people in SMBs make. Read this BEFORE you set up your network.
Background VoIPshield Systems is a VoIP security solutions company founded in early 2005. It has operations in Ottawa, Canada. Products VoIPshield... [more]
Jonathon Narvey
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I’m a Vancouver-based copywriter, journalist and blogger. I split most of my time between a daytime writing gig for a large tech firm in downtown Vancouver and my own freelance copywriting business. I pretty much spend all my time at work or at home making different combinations of words look pretty.
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