Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks

Do you need to keep up with the latest hacks, attacks, and exploits effecting Unified Communications technology? Then you need Seven Deadliest Unified Communication Attacks. This book pinpoints the most dangerous hacks and exploits specific to Unified Communications, laying out the anatomy of these attacks including how to make your system more secure. You will discover the best ways to defend against these vicious hacks with step-by-step instruction and learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable.

Attacks featured in this book include:

1. UC Ecosystem Attacks


2. Insecure Endpoints


3. Eavesdropping and Modification


4. Control Channel Attacks: Fuzzing, DoS, SPIT and Toll Fraud


5. SIP Trunking and PSTN Interconnection


6. Identity, Spoofing and Vishing


7. Attacks Against Distributed Systems

• Knowledge is power, find out about the most dominant attacks currently waging war on computers and networks globally


• Discover the best ways to defend against these vicious attacks; step-by-step instruction shows you how


• Institute countermeasures, don’t be caught defenseless again, learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable

Dan York (CISSP) is the Best Practices Chair for the VOIP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) as well as the producer of "Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast" where since October 2005 he and co-host Jonathan Zar have discussed VOIP security news and interviewed people involved in the field. Dan is employed as the Director of Conversations at Voxeo Corporation heading up the company's communication through both traditional and new/social media. Previously, Dan served in Voxeo's Office of the CTO focused on analyzing/evaluating emerging technology, participating in industry standards bodies and addressing VoIP security issues. Since the mid-1980s Dan has been working with online communication technologies and helping businesses and organizations understand how to use and participate in those new media. Dan frequently presents at conferences, has authored multiple books on Linux and networking and writes extensively online at sites such as www.voipsa.org/blog and www.disruptivetelephony.com.