Cisco IP Phones Vulnerable – IEEE Spectrum

Although the attack the researchers developed relies on physical access to the target telephone, Cui says they could also remotely compromise Cisco phones over the Internet. He and his colleagues plan to detail that work at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, on 27 December. The researchers discovered this vulnerability as part of their study of embedded computers, the electronics that, among other things, run power plants, printers, prison cell doors, and insulin pumps.

via Cisco IP Phones Vulnerable – IEEE Spectrum.

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