Who’s Watching Your WebEx?

13th October by Brian Krebs
 
KrebsOnSecurity spent a good part of the past week working with Cisco to alert more than four dozen companies — many of them household names — about regular corporate WebEx conference meetings that lack passwords and are thus open to anyone who wants to listen in.
 
http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/doe-285x339.pngDepartment of Energy’s WebEx meetings.
 
At issue are recurring video- and audio conference-based meetings that companies make available to their employees via WebEx, a set of online conferencing tools run by Cisco. These services allow customers to password-protect meetings, but it was trivial to find dozens of major companies that do not follow this basic best practice and allow virtually anyone to join daily meetings about apparently internal discussions and planning sessions.
 
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