It's Jail For the VoIP Hacker

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“It’s so easy. It’s so easy a caveman can do it,” Moore told InformationWeek, laughing.

Moore hacked 15 VoIP enabled companies and bundled their trunks/routings into his own entity, which he then attempted to sell.

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“I’d say 85% of them were misconfigured routers. They had the default passwords on them,” said Moore. “You would not believe the number of routers that had ‘admin’ or ‘Cisco0′ as passwords on them. We could get full access to a Cisco box with enabled access so you can do whatever you want to the box. …

Information Week has the full story and an interview (interesting read):-

http://www.informationweek.com/news/sho ... =202101781

Note what Moore says about use of standard/default passwords, something that was the first thing Ray Gower highlighted in his Basics of VoIP Security post:-

http://www.voipuser.org/forum_topic_5187.html

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It is fair to say ANYBODY who leaves a password at its default setting ought to put up a big flashing neon sign “I'm yours. Take me!”

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