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A Miami hacker has admitted he pocketed more than $1m by selling millions of minutes of voice over IP calls and surreptitiously routing them through the networks of telecommunications companies. Edwin Andrew Pena pleaded guilty to two felonies in connection with the hacking spree, which spanned the years 2004 through 2006, according to court documents. [...]

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VoIP vulnerability trends

McAfee Labs released a very interesting white paper about VoIP vulnerability trends and targets, and about protocol- and application-level attacks. They first observed an increase in VoIP vulnerabilities during the end of 2006 and that trend has continued through today. They credit part of this increase to better tools for finding VoIP vulnerabilities, yet this [...]

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