Your VoIP Phone Could Be Used To Spy On You!
This somewhat frightful claim has been reverberating around the inter-web the past few days. I do agree that YOUR IP phone(s) might be a candidate target for such an exploit. I’m not worried simply because my IP phones don’t suffer the particular vulnerability in question. More on that in a bit.
This claim stems from Paul Moore, a security consultant, hacking a snom 320 IP phone. He found that with the default admin credentials in place he could penetrate the phone, achieving broad control of the device. Then he used that control to do various nefarious things.
For example, he could place calls. Further, he could setup routing to send all calls via a premium service that paid him for every minute of connect time. Thereafter he’d just leave the phone on a long running call without the user ever becoming aware that it was busy. Cha-ching!
Family is curious thing. The people closest to us we often regard with a complex mixture of both affection and disdain. Such is the human condition. Emotion, passion especially, arises in so many forms, like matter and anti-matter, energetic yet opposite.
