1. Hackers leave firm with $80,000 phone bill
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...more than $80,000 of charges routed through a fake 1-900 number, before one of the carriers managing the network line noticed the suspicious activity and shut it down. Check it out here . ...

2. Avaya, Cisco and Nortel face VoIP vulnerabilities
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VoIP customers of Avaya, Cisco and Nortel should look Wednesday for patches that correct newly found vulnerabilities that, if exploited, can result in remote code execution; unauthorized access; denia

3. EDS Deploys 100,000 Cisco Unified IP Phones For Bank of America
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...ne of 100,000 Cisco Unified Internet Protocol (IP) phones within the bank’s extensive North American network environment. Check it out here . ...

4. Risks in the Enterprise Deconstructed conclusion
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...inst application layer attacks specific to the VoIP protocol traveling via the VPN into your enterprise network. Use secondary authentication methods with the VPN, username/passwords are not rec...

5. Disaster recovery bug hangs up Cisco comms kit
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...ork (DRF) Master component in a number of unified communications products from Cisco. The flaw, which the networking giant patched late last week, enables hackers to compromise vulnerable systems. C...

6. Large disclosure of VoIP vendor vulnerabilities
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...st database of vulnerabilities specific to the IP PBXes of market leaders Cisco Systems, Avaya and Nortel Networks. Check it out at Eweek and Wall Street Journal  ...

7. Social Security Confirms Nortel Government Solutions for World’s Largest VoIP
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...ction of a team led by Nortel Government Solutions* to deploy one of the world's largest enterprise VoIP networks under the 10-year, US$300 million Telephone Systems Replacement Project** (TSRP). Ch...

8. Risks in the Enterprise Deconstructed continued
(BleedingVoIP Security Series/Security Series)

...ecurity perspecitve that PSTN traffic is suddenly not going to introduce unwanted anomolies into your VoIP network; because it could, it very well could. If you have no one to do it, then call me up, ...

9. Clearwire Breaks Into VoIP Market
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... that mix. Using Nortel servers, Clearwire hopes to deliver VoIP services for the first time over its own network infrastructure. Read more at Clearwire and VoIP. ...

10. Cisco vs. Nortel VoIP Enterprise Showdown
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...ible issue which may arise with a full system in a production environment. Both companies have been in the networking scene since the early daysof IP and both have a good stake in the global VoIP depl...

11. Multi vendor VoIP SLA showdown
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...tudy some of the competing ISP (Internet Service Provider) vendors. In the fields of packet switched networks term Quality of Service, abbreviated QoS, refers to resource reservation control me...

12. Cisco vs. Nortel VoIP Signaling Showdown
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...ng encapsulation. They are the codes and commands used to establish and terminate a phone call over an IP network. The protocols support such features as conference calling, call waiting and call tr...

13. VoIP attacks decreasing or increasing in new year?
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...gly mistaken in his point that there will be less attacks because many VoIP installations are in corproate networks and they run proprietary protocols. It's simply bullshit. Anybody that knows VoIP se...

14. The Cisco/Microsoft battle for unified communications
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The cold-war between Microsoft and Cisco for the much coveted "unified communications" market has escalated to all out war, with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicting "the death of

15. My Opinion - Security. Do more and ignore less.
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...l over the web you can find lists of tools freely available that enable attacks of various types on VoIP networks and services. Spend some time in underground channels on networks such as IRC and e...

16. National Security Agency Certifies New IP Phone
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...ional Security Agency (NSA) to protect classified communications via voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks at the Top Secret level and below. Check it out at NSA certifies . ...

17. Carrier Class Voice over IP
(VoIP Whitepapers/General Articles)

With recent technological advances in Voice over IP, the communications industry has at last reached a position of strength. In the past, technology lacked the maturity to deliver a profitable and s

18. Emergency Call Handling in VoIP Networks
(VoIP Whitepapers/General Articles)

Emergency Call Handling (ECH) is an essential feature of today's public telephone networks, and if Voice over IP based PSTN replacement is to become a reality, the new technology will have to delive

19. IPsec in VoIP Networks
(VoIP Whitepapers/General Articles)

...a fact recognised by 3GPP in the IMS security framework. But 'VoIP over IPsec' poses problems in wireline networks when it encounters NATs. This paper examines the problems when IPsec meets NAT and...

20. Evolution from Separate Simple Services to a Fully-Flexible Environment
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Traces the trends in the evolution of network access technologies and forecasts the problems and opportunities the future will present for service and network providers. Check it out at The VoIP

21. Addressing QoS Beyond the Provider Network
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Explores the issue of voice quality and current status of QoS technologies in today’s VoIP networks. Discusses the QoS mechanisms SmartNode™ employs on the network access link to ensure

22. Discussing VoIP Bandwidth
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... WestBay Engineers Ltd, there are many factors involved when calculating the bandwidth required through a network.  This white paper aims to explain these factors, and to offer a simple means o...

23. Discussing VoIP Protocols
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...white paper describes the protocols which are typically involved when transporting voice over an IP based network.  A basic understanding of the protocols is required in order to understand the...

24. Proactive Approach to Security
(VoIP Whitepapers/General Articles)

To securely implement VoIP networks a proactive approach and an understanding of the differences between VoIP and traditional data networks is required. This document examines these differences, ne

25. Risks in the Enterprise Deconstructed
(BleedingVoIP Security Series/Security Series)

.... To the the fact that this risk is categorized as local, meaning the attacker needs local access to the network, the difficulty of exploiting such a risk is fairly high. Moreover, even the newer ...

26. VoIP in the News
(VoIP Buzz/VoIP News)

...annual update on VoIP market 2008.07.14 General News Network World reports on VoIP vulnerability disclosures More VoIP Vulnerabilit...

27. VoIP Sites
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...wareness, and free VoIP testing methodologies and tools. VON   Network World   VoIP Planet The IT Manager's Guid...

28. Blogs
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Microsoft Security blog Information from Microsoft about vulnerabilities, mitigations and workarounds, active attacks, and other related guidance and information.

29. Overview
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...t if not better metrics that PSTN exhibits. Thus, those providing VoIP must be able to ensure that voice networks are able to deliver the same quality, reliability, and security to that of PSTN. Wi...

30. Security Vendors
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...IP security product is  ETSS version that centrally monitors and manages security throughout a voice network in real-time. Borderware       &nbs...