For those of you who are concerned with the current wiretapping laws, you might be interested to hear this. Recently, this law has been modified so that legal authorities can keep your phone lines tapped for an additional 15 days. Oh yeah, and don’t bother trying to file a lawsuit against you telecommunications […]

With VoIP only becoming more popular, people who are utilizing the technology should be aware of some of the primary threats the technology will bring this year.  The scary thing is that even though these are just predictions from a security company, chances are hackers will be more and more driven to exploit these threats […]

Talk about bold. Here you have this computer security expert who breaks into a bank’s computer-controlled phone system without proper authorization. Since the bank didn’t authorize the hacker to do so, they press charges. So what happens? Not only does that hacker walk away with no fines or jail time, but […]

A little while ago, I published an article I found regarding the Skype worm that propagated through download messages. Well, come to find out, that was all a hoax. Even though this was a hoax, the people at Skype are definitely concerned. It may be a hoax now, but sooner or later […]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Skype, an IM service, has had a vulnerability exploited through a trojan. To be brief, if you use Skype and don’t want to get this Trojan, make sure you don’t download anything from it, no matter how appealing it sounds.

WebSense on Monday identified a […]

This seems to be one industry where the bad guys currently have the advantage over the good guys. While the VoIP protective measures of the Middle East are discussed here, the same applies to domestic individuals and businesses of all sizes. Because VoIP consists of telecommunications over the Internet, appropriate encryption standards need […]

Believe it or not, this hack was actually done by a journalist. While it is unknown how experienced this journalist was at hacking, all he really needed to do was guess a four number password, starting off with the most common combinations such as 1-2-3-5, 1-7-9-3, and 3-5-2-6. It just goes to show […]