Telephone intercept scam exposes anew security risks to royals
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A police probe into whether a journalist intercepted phone calls from Prince Charles's London residence exposed another potential breach of security around the royal family.
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An ingenious new Trojan is circulating that hijacks PCs and uses them to send SMS-based spam to mobile phones. After a PC has been infected, the Delf-HA Trojan contacts a Web site for details on which spam
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Internet fraudsters have developed a sophisticated new method of using e-mails to capture internet banking customers&#39; details.
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Internet phone service from Voyage  Holdings Corp is vulnerable to attacks by hackers, who are able  to intercept calls to the company's subscribers, a security  firm said on Wednesday.
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A new Trojan horse is on the loose, threatening Symbian-based smart phones.
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A highly sophisticated spying operation that tapped into the mobile phones of Greece's prime minister and other top government officials has highlighted weaknesses in telecommunications systems that still use decades-old computer code, according to a report by two computer scientists.
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A flashier offshoot of the Trojan horse that affects Symbian-based cell phones has been discovered.
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A new computerized service enables customers to create phony outbound phone numbers in order to mask their telephone identities.
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LONDON: If you thought that your little chit chats on your mobile phones are safe from eavesdropping, think again, as security experts have revealed that the new generation of mobile phones are highly vulnerable to hackers.
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Scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim's PCs.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2004 (TECHWORLD.COM) - LONDON - A new Trojan horse is circulating that hijacks PCs and uses them to send SMS-based spam to mobile phones.
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Scammers and hackers are targeting the human factor in system setups. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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(InfoWorld) - Banks and other companies switching their phone systems to VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) are making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are currently no effective detection or prevention tools, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "People will be able to penetrate bank networks and hijack their phone lines," said an independent security researcher, known by his pseudonym The Grugq, in an interview. VOIP is becoming increasingly common as companies and operators look to the technology to help cut costs, which makes them moreÂ vulnerable to attack, he said. The Groqg, who spoke this week at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, saidÂ VOIP phishing attacksÂ will emerge by the end of this year. The attacks will allow hackers to steal personal data, including credit card numbers and bank account information, and there is little security managers can do to stop them. "Theoretically, you phone up your bank and the customer service line has been taken over by hackers," The Grugq said. In this scenario, the customer would be asked by the hacker to enter personal banking information before being passed on to an actual bank customer-service representative. "There's no security technology out there that companies can deploy to fix this," The Grugq said, noting that existing intrusion-detection systems are not capable of detecting when a VOIP attack takes place. During his presentation at HITB, The Groqg announced the release of alpha code for SIPhallis, a tool he wrote that allows security managers to manage SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) VOIP packets on their networks. "It gives you an interface to create and send VOIP packets; it also allows monitoring of VOIP packets," he said, adding the application can also be used to inject packets into a VOIP stream. Existing softphone or PBX software is all that is required for hackers to launch a VOIP attack, The Grugq said. HITB runs through Thursday, Sept. 21.
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He says banks and other companies switching their phone systems to voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) are making themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks for which there are currently no effective detection or prevention tools.
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Hackers with a Vonage Holdings Corp  phone subscriber's name and telephone number could intercept  Internet phone calls by exploiting a weakness in the system, a  security firm said on Wednesday.
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MI5, GCHQ bemoan 'biggest change since telephones' The head of the UK government's secret electronic spying and codebreaking agency, GCHQ, has said that his organisation's ability to intercept conversations and messages is seriously undermined by internet-protocol (IP) communications. The digital spook's comments may come as a blow to British and European politicians who have sworn to eradicate terrorism from the internet.â¦
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This year could see the first serious VoIP exploit, among many other threats.