Victim of success: VoIP vulnerability tripled since 2006

McAfee labs has released an alarming white paper about the state of VoIP security. According to the report, they found almost 60 vulnerabilities in VoIP products. In 2006 they found only 20 such breaches.

McAfee attributed the increase in security problems to better hacker technology to find and exploit VoIP vulnerabilities, but mainly to the growth of VoIP installations over the last couple years. Cisco, Nortel and Avaya equipment were all mentioned in the report. The paper explained the various security breaches were things like eavesdropping, call spoofing, DOS attacks, stealing VoIP minutes, and VoIP phishing.

For more:
- read this article on the report

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