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Taliban using 'Internet phones' to evade MI6 in Afghanistan
Editor's Note: It is true that technology can be used for good or bad. The key is to try and not create situations where people are put into position where they fall into the latter.
Technology is like a double- edged sword. While it's being used by the British intelligence to track them down, the Taliban are effectively exploiting the Internet phones to evade detection in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
The militants are using Skype, a popular piece of consumer software that allows free calls to be made over the web, to communicate with cells strung out across that country, the 'Daily Mail' quoted an intelligence source as saying.
Phreakers take over FEMA phones – thousands lost to overseas calls
Coweta (GA) 911 now instantly maps cell phone calls
Most Cowetans who call 911 from their cell phones don't have to worry about location errors such as the one that may have contributed to the recent death of a woman in north Fulton County.
When a call comes in to Coweta's 911 center, the location instantly pops up on a map of the county on the operator's screen. Landline calls additionally show the address where the phone call originated.
General Dynamics Awarded NSA Contract to Add Switched Network Compatibility to the Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone
Massive DNS security problem endangers the internet
Let the SPIT (Spam over Internet Telephony) Wars Begin
If SPAM arrives in your inbox at 4am, the chances are your antispam software will catch it. But even if it doesn’t, you won’t lose much sleep over its arrival. But it’ll be a different story with SPIT (spam over internet telephony). Junk phone calls at 4am are going to drive you mad because the chances are that antispit software won’t be able to intercept the call.
SIP swiss army knife
Fake caller ID: Fun, Legal and Easy
Note: He is right, you can't trust caller ID these days. I do know that is someone sends no caller ID then I don't answer. It's usually a telemarketer or some congressmen trying to give me an award for donating money to there party or associations. In our current environment I am not sure how long that will last. If you are trying to get in touch with your local press try changing it to some major organization's ID and see if your call gets picked up faster? I bet it would.
He cited some legislation that was put through in 2007 and is currently stuck in the Senate. "The law would outlaw causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service." Law enforcement is exempt from the rule."
Here is an excerpt from the article:
VoIP Security Fundamentals
Note: Computer Weekly has a great Monday morning article about VoiP security and how a PBX can affect it.
Voice over IP (VoIP) security is a challenge for IT staff because IP telephony (IPT) brings with it not only the security problems of data networks but also new threats specific to VoIP. In this fundamentals guide, learn about network security threats and emerging IP telephony threats, and how to secure your VoIP systems and endpoints from them.
EP-880 VoIP Phone Uses Frequency Domain Scrambling Technology
Note: If this phone is SIP compliant then we might need to pick a couple up for "testing".
Everpeace Technology has released the EP-880, an encrypted VoIP phone that integrates frequency domain scrambling technology and can block phone-tapping devices. It supports the PSTN network and standard PBX systems.
