Miscreants can crash or infiltrate banks and help desks’ touch-tone and voice-controlled phone systems with a single call, a security researcher warns

Posted: 2012/09/18 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

Rahul Sasi, who works for iSight Partners, said audio processing algorithms in office telephone networks and speech-driven command software are liable to crash when bombarded with unusual data in so-called fuzzing attacks.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/18/dtmf_phone_system_hack_attack/

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