http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/VoIP-hackers-strike-Perth-business/0,130061791,339294515,00.htm By Suzanne Tindal ZDNet.com.au 21 January 2009 A hacker recently obtained unauthorised access to the IP telephony (VoIP) system of a Perth business, making 11,000 calls costing over $120,000, according to the Western Australian police. The calls were made over a period of 46 hours, the police said, and the business only became aware of the imposition when it received an invoice from its service provider. Thieves have always targeted PBX systems by finding numbers used for remote calling — for mobile employees or those requiring international call access outside of business hours — to make calls at the company's expense. This has in the past been exploited for uses such as routing calls made on cheap international phone cards, according to Pure Hacking senior security consultant Chris Gatford. However, police said they were more concerned with the increasing number of occurrences such as that in Perth where the thieves gained access to users' VoIP network. They have issued a warning to small businesses to ramp up their VoIP security. [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Tue Jan 20 2009 - 22:29:30 PST
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