Visual voicemail hack makes your messages a snack

  • 20 October 2014
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By Darren Pauli, 20 Oct 2014  Ruxcon Sydney penetration tester Shubham 'Shubs' Shah has urged US and European researchers to probe their telco's voicemail security after he found accounts held by local telcos Vodafone and Optus were open to attack.
The two telcos were vulnerable because design flaws mean neither limited the number of password guessing attempts in their visual voicemail services.
 Shubham and fellow Snapchat hacker Huey Peardreported the flaws to Optus earlier this year via the Sydney Morning Herald and later to Vodafone but was unable to travel to the US or Europe to examine local telco security arrangements there.
 


 
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Voice recognition has been around for quite awhile by government agency's its just now being introduced in the internet and I believe this is a good approach for security.

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