New tools test VoIP security

Iria · Aug 3, 2006, 06:54 AM

Source: News.com
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LAS VEGAS--If your VoIP phone starts ringing off the hook, it might not denote a surge in your popularity--just that someone is trying one of 13 newly released security tools.

Security researchers at the Black Hat security confab released the tools here Wednesday. The programs are meant to test the security of increasingly popular Voice over Internet Protocol telephony systems, Dave Endler, director of security research at TippingPoint, said in an interview. TippingPoint is part of 3Com, which sells VoIP products.

Each of the tools can be used to launch VoIP system attacks such as overloading phones or VoIP exchanges with ambiguous traffic, flooding phones with calls, forcing hang-ups, rebooting phones, and reassigning the devices to other users or nobody at all, Endler said.

Aug 3, 2006, 06:54 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	New tools test VoIP security Source: News.com ___________ LAS VEGAS--If your VoIP phone starts ringing off the hook, it might not denote a surge in your popularity--just that someone is trying one of 13 newly released security tools. Security researchers at the Black Hat security confab released the tools here Wednesday. The programs are meant to test the security of increasingly popular Voice over Internet Protocol telephony systems, Dave Endler, director of security research at TippingPoint, said in an interview. TippingPoint is part of 3Com, which sells VoIP products. Each of the tools can be used to launch VoIP system attacks such as overloading phones or VoIP exchanges with ambiguous traffic, flooding phones with calls, forcing hang-ups, rebooting phones, and reassigning the devices to other users or nobody at all, Endler said. Last edited by MIG-31; Aug 3, 2006 at 07:00 AM. Reason: fixed the link