Thursday, August 03, 2006

Black Hat: Phishers Hit The Phone Bank With Asterisk

Sean Michael Kerner writes on internetnews.com:

It wasn't that long ago that phishing was an e-mail-only issue. But that has recently changed with the introduction of terms such as vishing into the security lexicon.

In a presentation here at the Black Hat conference, Security Researcher Jay Shulman explained how to execute a phishing scam with the help of Digium's Asterisk PBX.

The Asterisk VoIP PBX project is perhaps the most well known and popular open source VoIP project in the world today.

It is lowering the barrier to telephony entry for millions, including hackers out to steal your money and personal information.

More here.

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