Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast

Blue Box #51: Cisco SIP vulnerabilities, VoIP security hype, SPIT, OpenID, other VoIP security news and more...

Synopsis: Cisco SIP security vulnerabilities, VoIP security hype, SPIT, OpenID, other VoIP security news and more... 

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #51, a 35-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions. 

NOTE: This show was originally recorded February 7, 2007. 

Download the show here (MP3, 16MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically. 

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Show Content: 

• 00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long! Discussion of bandwidth in Japan and Asia.
• 03:13 - Programming notes
  • Podcasts by phone is back up with new number - +12183398544
• 3:53 - Cisco Security Advisory: SIP Packet Reloads IOS Devices Not Configured for SIP – note also that Cisco is now using CVSS as mentioned in their (Cisco) FAQ
• 06:33 - Multiple VOIP Phones Aredfox PA168 Chipset Session Hijacking Vulnerability
• 09:26 - InfoWorld NL: Hype versus reality in VoIP security
• 13:37 - ITWire: NEC’s VoIP spam detector turns Turing Test on its head and also Engadget: NEC invents 99 percent effective SPIT catcher and also ZDNet: VoIP spam tipped to rocket
• 16:49 - IIS Zone: What To Do When SPIT Hits The Fan (sponsored by Verisign)
• 18:59 - Network World: Expert: Phishing and other social attacks threaten VoIP (Dave Endler)
• 20:23 - CommsDesign: VoIP security: Scenarios, challenges, and counter measures—Part I
• 21:11 - CompTIA: Concerns Over IP Telephony Security Still Present in SMB Market, CompTIA Study Reveals – see also vnunet article and techtarget (sent in by Rhodri Davies)
• 23:49 - Aswath: Extending OpenID Authentication Scheme for Communication Systems
  • Comment from Shlomo Dubrowin about OpenID
• 29:09 - darkreading: FBI Faces Fresh Cyber Threats
• 29:36 - CRN: CRN Poll: No concerns around VoIP adoption (sample size?)
• 30:06 - Press Releases
  
  • Postini Annual Communications Intelligence Report Shows Security and Compliance Top Communications Professionals’ Concerns=
  • Sipera boots VoIP Security
  • Eyeball Intros AnyFirewall Engine (sent in by Craig Bowser)
  • SONUS NETWORKS OFFERS NETWORK OPERATORS ENHANCED SECURITY WITH LATEST RELEASE OF NETWORK BORDER SWITCH
  • Secure Computing Introduces Sidewinder 7.0, Industry’s First Reputation-based Firewall
  • Info Security Products Guide Awards Covergence the ’’Hot Companies’’ Recognition for 2007
• 31:18 - Hudson Barton has a new blog Borderless Communications with a VoIP Security Bulletins page
• 31:35 - Dr. Richard Zhao Liang has relocated his blog to http://sbin.cn/blog/ because of issues accessing Wordpress.com from within China His Chinese blog is still at http://blog.zhaol.cn/
• 32:07 - Rodolfo Rosini’s company has changed its name to CellCrypt and raised $3.1M in financing
• 32:22 - Comments will be held until next week.
• 32:35 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list 
• 32:51 - Wrap-up of the show 
  • Dan's going to Cairo the week of March 19th - any listeners out there?
  • Reminder that you can subscribe to the show via email as well as RSS 
• 35:54 - End of show 

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there. 

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

If any listeners use Digg, Blue Box could use some more digging...

In browsing Digg.com this morning, I noticed that Blue Box is listed in the Digg podcast directory, but it only has a very few "Diggs" (4 before I added my own).  If any of you are Digg users and would be so inclined to go to that page and "digg" the podcast (the count at the top for the overall podcast versus the individual episodes), we'd appreciate the votes.  If enough listeners do this, it might move Blue Box up some of the lists of podcasts (note the "Up and Coming Podcasts" sidebar) and attract additional listeners that way.  Comments are also of course welcome.  Many thanks to the folks who have already "dugg" Blue Box and are responsible for it being there in the first place.  Thanks!

Blue Box #50: Grand Central anti-SPIT initiative, Cisco and Ironport, Skype and business, VoIP security news and more

 

Synopsis: Grand Central's anti-SPIT initiative, Cisco buys Ironport, Skype targets business, other VoIP security news, listener comments and more... 

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #50, a 26-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions. 

NOTE: This show was originally recorded January 17, 2007. 

Download the show here (MP3, 12MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically. 

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Show Content:

• 00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long!  Special welcome to readers who found us through the new Hacking Exposed: VoIP book that was just recently released.
• 01:13 - Programming notes
• 02:34 - Skype Security Blog: Deploying Skype in a Windows domain – and my response on VOIPSA blog
• 06:13 - Voice of VOIPSA: Voice SPAM - The Fightback begins pointing to Grand Central anti-spam page (sent in my Hasan Diwan)
• 07:48 - VoipUser: How To Build A Voip Network: 7 rules for the VoIP entrepreneur in 2007 – note my comment on security
• 10:00 - VoIPNews: VoIP Scams, Phishing, And Denial Of Service Attacks
• 11:10 - Register: Security vendors talk up VoIP threats
• 11:55 - VNUNet: Convergence brings business challenges and companion Tips for securing VoIP
• TechRepublic: Make a SIP-based VoIP network more secure
• 14:42 - CRM Buyer: Cisco Buys IronPort for $830 Million – interesting for Gartner quote at end… and also for potential for VoIP security – see also earthweb
• 17:41 - VoIPNews: Will Vonage Work for Your Business?
• 19:25 - BT announces that consumer VoIP subscribers has hit the one million mark
• 20:38 - And from the alarm department – VoIP Alarm Introduced at CES
• 21:51 - ERF Launches First Secure Wireless VoIP System for Banking Industry
• 23:16 - Sipera IPCS 310 Awarded Internet Telephony Magazine’s 2006 Product of the Year=
• 23:26 - Q1 Labs Announces New Network Security Management Capabilities for VoIP Networks
• 24:10 - Upcoming shows:
• Feb 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA, RSA Conference 2007 
• Feb 27-Mar 1, 2007, San Francisco, Emerging Telephony 2007 
• Mar 1-2, 2007, London, EUSecWest 
• Mar 19-21, 2007, San Jose, CA, Spring 2007 VON 
• Mar 23-25, Washington, DC, ShmooCon ‘07 
• Apr 16-20, Vancouver, BC, Canada CanSecWest 2006
• 24:51 - Comments
• 25:85 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list 
• 25:31 - Wrap-up of the show 
  • Thank you to our listeners for staying with us through 50 shows
  • Reminder that you can subscribe to the show via email as well as RSS 
  • Mention of our Frappr map
• 26:39 - End of show 

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there. 

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Blue Box #49: SPIT, Skype security, disposable phone numbers, phishing, VoIP security news, listener comments and more

Synopsis: SPIT, Skype security, disposable phone numbers, phishing, VoIP security news, listener comments and more...

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #49, a 55-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.

NOTE: This show was originally recorded January 5, 2007, and was delayed with production issues.

Download the show here (MP3, 23MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically.

You may also listen to this podcast right now:

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Show Content:

• 00:21 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long!  Special welcome to readers who found us through the new Hacking Exposed: VoIP book that was just recently released.
• 03:12 - Programming notes:
  • Audio issues with #48 – writing to USB drive
  • Dan contributed to Still Secure, After All These Years, Podcast #26 which was a roundup of opinions on security issues from a range of folks
  • Show #50 is next week
• 04:37 - VoIP News: How Secure Are Your VoIP Calls – and my response
• 06:07 - Note that Mark Collier has revamped the design of his VoIP Security Blog
• 06:38 - CSO: Security in 2007: Botnets, Threat Convergence and Other Risks – note their casual mention of SPIT and “thousands of messages” – wonder where they got their data from?
• 09:28 - ZDNet: What threats does Skype face? – interview with Skype CSO Kurt Sauer – also Jan Geirnaert’s response
• 15:08 - Jan: How to use the Skype and P2P traffic blocker? Tapping into Skype Traffic with the traffictapper from Lyanda.
• 16:14 - Dark Reading: Voice Cracks
• 18:17 - IT Observer: Voice over IP Under Threat – which was slashdotted
• 20:31 - TechWeb: Phishers’ Latest Platforms: VoIP, SMS
• 21:11 - EnterpriseITPlanet: The Year in Instant Messaging
• 26:28 - Voice of Voipsa: (just quick mentions – we forgot these last week)
  • Martyn: Securing the WLAN Link
  • Shawn: Skype 3.0 – Your new Romulan phone
  • Martyn: Tell Me Your PIN, So I Can Go Shopping
  • Dustin: Skype, an Essential Tool for Interrogation (also RealGeek )
• 29:56 - Websense ‘Skype’ Trojan Analysis – followup to our story last week… not VoIP per se but an interesting analysis
• 32:05 - The PhoneBoy Blog: Eating My Words on OpenID
• 34:18 - Zycko: VoIP Security priority for 2007
• 34:50 - Network World: The year ahead: Juggling IT risks, opportunities
• 35:08 - Upcoming shows:
  • Jan 23-26, 2007, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Internet Telephony Conference and Expo – East
  • Feb 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA, RSA Conference 2007
  • Feb 27-Mar 1, 2007, San Francisco, Emerging Telephony 2007
  • Mar 1-2, 2007, London, EUSecWest
  • Mar 19-21, 2007, San Jose, CA, Spring 2007 VON
  • Mar 23-25, Washington, DC, ShmooCon ‘07
  • Apr 16-20, Vancouver, BC, Canada CanSecWest 2006
• 35:48 - Comment (audio) about Minnesota Asterisk user group
• 37:36 - Comment (blog) from Aswath Rao
• 39:58 - Comment (blog) from Mark Collier
• 40:07 - Comment (email) from Martyn Davies about ISS report
• 40:34 - Comments-3 (email) from Craig
• 41:52 - Comment (email) from Dave Roper pointing to Disposable Phone Numbers - discussion included Jangl, Private Phone and Craigsnumber
• 48:02 - Comment (email) from Rick McCharles
• 51:32 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list
• 52:08 - Wrap-up of the show
  • Reminder that you can subscribe to the show via email as well as RSS
  • Mention of our Frappr map
• 54:38 - End of show

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Technorati tags: voip security, voip, voipsa, skype, skype security, phishing, SPIT, security

Blue Box "Podcasts by Phone" is back up with a new phone number

For folks wondering whatever happened to the ability to listen to Blue Box podcasts over the phone, the person running the service, "natas", let me know that he had a situation where the provider of the DID phone line stopped providing that service.  He's got the server back up now with a new provider and a new phone number:

  +1-218-339-8544

Now that it's back up, he's going to be updating it with new shows as he only has up to Blue Box #40 in there right now.  So the question of the moment is... who will get done first?  Will natas update the server up through show #48?  Or will I post shows #49 and #50 to the blog?

Seriously, we do appreciate and thank natas for providing this service and we would still be curious to hear people's feedback about whether or not this service is useful to them.  (It's all part of the grand experiment here...)

Shows 49 and 50 are in the queue...

If you are wondering why their haven't been any Blue Box episodes since January 3rd, don't panic, we haven't "podfaded".  Shows 49 and 50 have both been recorded and are sitting in a certain producer's queue for audio post-production and editing.  Unfortunately, that producer, who shall remain nameless but whose last name starts with a "Y", has been a wee bit buried and show #49 ran a bit longer and needs some more editing than many of our episodes.   But they will be out soon....  my apologies for the delay!

Blue Box #48: The Crystal Ball Edition - Top VoIP Security issues of 2006 and predictions for 2007, Skype worm that wasn't, drive-by SPIT, OpenID, poking holes in firewalls, listener comments and more...

Synopsis: The Crystal Ball Edition - Top VoIP Security issues of 2006 and predictions for 2007, Skype worm that wasn't, drive-by SPIT, OpenID for SIP authentication, poking holes in firewalls, listener comments and more...

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #48, a 50-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.

NOTE: For the first time in many shows we had an issue with the recording of the show that introduced gaps and other audio artifacts.  Unfortunately, I was not running my backup recorder and schedules (and holidays) made a retake impractical.  So my apologies... and if you are new to the show, please don't judge the show by the audio quality of this particular show.

Download the show here (MP3, 23MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically.

You may also listen to this podcast right now:

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Show Content:

• 00:21 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long!  Special welcome to readers who found us through the new Hacking Exposed: VoIP book that was just recently released.
• 01:50 - Programming notes:
  
  • sending in ident audio files
  • Dan has launched a new blog - Disruptive Telephony
  • Dan was interviewed by Jon Arnold about VoIP Security for his podcast series
• 04:08 - CNET: Confusion over Skype security threat clears up – all sorts of reports originating from the Websense blog entry – other links: CBC ComputerWorld TechWorld SC: Hackers unleash worm that targets Skype Heise Online – also Earthtimes gets it right
• 06:31 - DarkReading: VoIP More Vulnerable
• 09:09 - McGraw-Hill press release about Hacking Exposed: VoIP and also CRN: VoIP Risks Take Center Stage in 2007
• 09:49 - CNS: Telecom execs conclude enterprise security products insufficient for carrier networks
• 11:14 - Xchange Online: Survey: Security a Concern in Product Rollouts
• 12:44 - Heise Security: The hole trick: How Skype & Co. get round firewalls (tip to 21talks )
• 13:26 - Network Magazine (India): Voice over IP: Security issues to the fore
• 15:50 - Aswath Rao: There is No Money in the Authentication Business with some reaction, particularly from PhoneBoy Kveton and Alec Saunders
• 20:51 - ITBusiness.ca: The pros and cons of having a contractor do security
• 22:22 - VoIP News: Building VoIP Security at the Gateway Level – part of a special on VoIP Gateways
• 23:47 - Greatreporter.com: Hackers ‘can eavesdrop on 70% of web calls’
• 24:44 - LinuxDevices: Belkin WiFi Skype phone based on Linux
• 26:04 - Oral Health & Dental Practice Management: Technology in Tomorrow’s Dental Office
• 27:21 -Bluesocket Achieves VoIP Vocera Certifications
• 28:42 - Feature - Top VoIP security stories from 2006 and predictions for 2007. Some links mentioned in the discussion:
  
  • RSA Speaking of Security Podcast #42 about phishing war story
  • vnunet.com’s IT security predictions for 2007
  • BCS: MessageLabs: Targeted security attacks to soar in 2007 (also in SC )
• 46:23 - Upcoming shows:
  • Jan 23-26, 2007, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Internet Telephony Conference and Expo – East
  • Feb 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA, RSA Conference 2007
  • Feb 27-Mar 1, 2007, San Francisco, Emerging Telephony 2007
  • Mar 1-2, 2007, London, EUSecWest
  • Mar 19-21, 2007, San Jose, CA, Spring 2007 VON
  • Mar 23-25, Washington, DC, ShmooCon ‘07
  • Apr 16-20, Vancouver, BC, Canada CanSecWest 2006
• 47:26 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list
• 48:04 - No comments other than Aswath's note about OpenID that we covered earlier.
• 48:45 - Wrap-up of the show
  • Reminder that you can subscribe to the show via email as well as RSS
  • Mention of our Frappr map
• 50:11 - End of show
   

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Blue Box #47: Deflating VoIP security hype, SANS and the need for better VoIP security training, India moves to block Skype and other VoIP, Skype security, tutorials, listener comments and more...

Synopsis: Deflating VoIP security hype, SANS and the need for better VoIP security training, India moves to block Skype and other VoIP,  Skype security, tutorials, listener comments and more...

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #47, a 69-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.

Download the show here (MP3, 32MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically.

You may also listen to this podcast right now:

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Show Content:

• 00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long!  Special welcome to readers who found us through the new Hacking Exposed: VoIP book that was just recently released.
• 02:20 - Programming notes:
  
  • sending in ident audio files
  • SanDisk Cruzer disks (with U3 software)
  • Blue Box dinner - photo by Martyn Davies
  • Security Podcast Network
  • SE #14- Interview with Ken Camp
• 09:19 - VoIP News: Voip Security ‘Best Practices’ Project Launches
• 09:41 - Voice of VOIPSA: The Register – Open Season for hackers
• 11:08 - SearchSecurity.com: Better VoIP training needed, SANS director says – see also Eric Chamberlin at Voxilla: VoIP Security: Stop Everything – also launched a VoIP security forum
• 18:30 - Economic Times (India): Illegal Web calls by BPOs face axe – see also 21Talks: India outlaws Skype, Yahoo and others
• 22:13 - British Computer Society: Skype – How safe is it? (sent in by both Martyn Davies and Rhodri Davies)
• 24:01 - Electronic Engineering Times: IP phone providers must focus on security, says report pointing to In-Stat report – VoIP Security: Preparing for the Evolving Threat – it can be yours for only $2,995  – see also In-Stat press release: Business VoIP Users Must Focus on Security
• 27:28 - b5media: Interview with PGP founder Phil Zimmermann: Zfone, secure VoIP media encryption software
• 29:41 - eWeek: Outlook 2007:VoIP
• 31:22 - The Age (Australia): Hackers ‘to target VoIP users’
• 32:39 - Greatreporter.com: VoIP wiretapping widespread, warns Scanit
• 34:16 - TMC.net: SPIT: Bringing Spam to Your Voicemail Box (by Bogdan Materna)
• 37:18 - Image and Data Manager (Australia): IM and VoIP Still Not On Security Radar
• 38:17 - InfoWorld ZeroDaySecurity Blog: Is social engineering always used to commit fraud?
• 45:16 - ZDNet UK: Weigh the pros and cons of VoIP over wireless
• 45:42 - Voice of VOIPSA: Security through Obscurity by Martyn Davies about the conf he attended
• 46:09 - Voice of VOIPSA: Cell phones, GPS location and Amber Alerts by Shawn Merdinger
• 47:28 - Voice of VOIPSA: IronGeek Hacking Tutorial Videos by Shawn Merdinger
• 48:32 - Enterprise VoIPPlanet: The VoIP Peering Puzzle: The IETF SPEERMINT Architecture
• Dialogic Expands IP Media Gateway Product Line (Martyn Davies works there… note the VoIP security mention later in the release)
• 51:24 - comment (audio) from “the man from California” about Click-to-Call
• 54:01 - comment (email) from Shawn Merdinger about Click-to-Call
• 56:20 - comment (email) from Raul Siles (just about BP project)
• 57:06 - comment (email) from Yiannis Miliaresis  about podcast in Greece and iptelephony.gr
• 58:27 - comment (email) from Julien Goodwin about CBR article
• 58:57 - comment (email) from Alan Garwood about mini-poll on Infosecurity Europe web page
• 60:16 - comment (email) from Shlomo Dubrowin about BP project
• 61:19 - comment (blog) from Mark Collier
• 62:29 - comment (email) from Frank Leonhart about BBP dinner
• 63:29 - comment (email) from Mike Bailey asking a question about Skype installation
• 64:20 - comment (email) from Dion Rowney about recorder
• 67:30 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list
• 68:23 - Wrap-up of the show
  • Reminder that you can subscribe to the show via email as well as RSS
  • Mention of our Frappr map
• 69:49 - End of show

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

P.S. We didn't mention the "upcoming shows", but here is the list we have been maintaining:

• Jan 23-26, 2007, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Internet Telephony Conference and Expo – East
• Feb 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA, RSA Conference 2007
• Feb 27-Mar 1, 2007, San Francisco, Emerging Telephony 2007
• Mar 1-2, 2007, London, EUSecWest
• Mar 19-21, 2007, San Jose, CA, Spring 2007 VON
• Mar 23-25, Washington, DC, ShmooCon ‘07
• Apr 16-20, Vancouver, BC, Canada CanSecWest 2006

Blue Box SE #14: Interview with Ken Camp, speaker, author, VoIP blogger and more

Synopsis: Interview with Ken Camp, speaker, author, blogger, consultant and host of the Realtime / Unified Communications Community

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast Special Edition #14, a 19-minute podcast where Blue Box host Dan York interviews Ken Camp of the Realtime/Unified Communications Community.

Download the show here (MP3, 8MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically.

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Show Content:

In this special edition, Dan York sat down with Ken Camp out at the Internet Telephony conference in San Diego in October 2006 to talk about what Ken is doing.  Ken is a speaker, author, blogger, independent consultant and is also the host of the Realtime/Unified Communications Community, which consists of a website, podcast, blog, web forums, document database and more.  Ken's also just a great guy and is very literate in security matters.  At the Internet Telephony conference, he was moderating multiple panel sessions on VoIP security, including one in which Dan is a panelist.

During the interview, Ken spoke about the sessions there at Internet Telephony, his background, what he's doing with the Realtime / Unified Communications Community and more.  To read more about what Ken is doing, you can visit:

• Digital Common Sense, Ken's blog
• the Realtime Unified Communications Community

We appreciate Ken taking the time to speak with us and hope you all enjoy the interview as well.

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Blue Box #46: Google click-to-call, Bluetooth, Skype secuity, VOIPSA Best Practices project, VoIP security news, listener comments and more

Synopsis: Google click-to-call, Bluetooth, Skype secuity, VOIPSA Best Practices project, VoIP security news, listener comments and more

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #46, a 49-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.

Download the show here (MP3, 23MB) or subscribe to the RSS feed to download the show automatically.

You may also listen to this podcast right now:

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Show Content:

• 00:20 - Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners - and to all those listeners who have been here for so long!
• 02:09 - Programming notes and discussion of Blue Box Dinner in London on Dec 7th.
• 03:45 - Voice of VOIPSA: Click to Harrass (Dustin Trammell about Google Click-to-call and then my response)
• 12:25 - Voice of VOIPSA: Mobile phone insecurities and snakes on a plane (Shawn Merdinger)
• 14:09 - Voice of VOIPSA: Security meets flexibility  (Martyn Davies)
• 14:32 - Network World: Secure caller ID for VoIP (by Jonathan Rosenberg of IETF fame)
• 15:34 - SearchSMB.com: Secure VoIP in simple steps (From Rodri Davies)  Note that article author has security blog.
• 16:40 - ITwire Australia: Skype bugging your network? Here’s how to squash it
• 17:31 - Ken Camp: Skype on the Thumbdrive? Not When it Violates Company Policy
• 21:39 - Jan in Malaysia: How to log your local Skype  (Jan continues his Skype security explorations)
• 22:28 - Dangerously Irrelevant: Advising, webcams and Skype (about a UMinn prof who runs into uni policy about using Skype)
• 24:30 - SouthBendTribune.com: New bait for ‘phishing’ scams
• 25:21 - ComputerWorld New Zealand: Bank of America rolls out VoIP – with some pain
• 27:14 - ZDNet India: Juniper and NEC announce joined network solutions
• 28:15 -The Register: Computer Misuse Act could ban security tools
• 28:43 -VONaLink ScreenPop – New VoIP Caller ID Software Released
• 29:18 -Irdeto IPTV security solution successfully completes rigorous audit by respected security experts
• 30:21 - Telecoms Korea: VoIP susceptiple to Spam (subscription required)
• 31:08 - Upcoming shows:
  
  • Dec 4-6, Atlanta, GA, VON Enterprise
  • Dec 5, London, UK, Secure Mobile Computing
  • Jan 23-26, 2007, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Internet Telephony Conference and Expo – East
  • Feb 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA, RSA Conference 2007
  • Feb 27-Mar 1, 2007, San Francisco, Emerging Telephony 2007
  • Mar 1-2, 2007, London, EUSecWest
  • Mar 19-21, 2007, San Jose, CA, Spring 2007 VON
  • Mar 23-25, Washington, DC, ShmooCon ‘07
  • Apr 16-20, Vancouver, BC, Canada CanSecWest 2006
• 32:25 - Feature segment - impending launch of VOIPSA Best Practices project page
  • More on the impending launch
• 37:14 - comment (audio) from Jamie Brody (?) from Truphone
• 39:53 - comment (email) from Richard who writes hi2005.wordpress.com and has excellent acronym lists: Resources, Security Acronyms and Telecom Acronyms
• 40:52 - comment (email) from Ross Chason about two-factor identification in phones
• 42:10 - comment (email) from Simon Wood ho points to list of spoken phrases for speech quality at the Open Speech Repository
• 43:46 - comment (email) from Paul Asadoorian about pen-test email list discussion
• 45:04 - comment (email) from Rhodri Davies
• 46:08 - comment (email) about how to protect a network
• 47:30 - Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list
• 48:09 - Wrap-up of the show
  • Reminder that you can subscribe to the show via email as well as RSS
  • Mention of our Frappr map
• 49:14 - End of show

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post  or via e-mail to [email protected].  Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows.  You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to '[email protected]' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.