PGP founder unveils new VoIP security
<<<... While functional, these technologies rely on interaction with servers and trade data that could remain on the servers. Under Zfone's encryption protocol, no keys are traded and the necessary data for a secure connection between two parties is produced by the hardware and destroyed at the end of the call.
This may have arrived just in time. Beyond e-mail scams and viral attacks that seem to plague PC users every couple of months and keep them constantly updating bundled protection software, it's become more profitable to gather and sort any and all personal information that can be collected.
Phishing scams asking for user identification and passwords from seemingly valid companies are simply the beginning, and where these efforts leave off, more sophisticated tactics are under way. Voice data such as VoIP-based telephone calls made from an office environment can be captured and sorted into audio files using tools such as Voice Over Misconfigured Internet Telephones. From there, the software can be easily expanded upon to make sorting, filtering and categorizing the captured data easier and more specific to office personnel.
Where wiretapping and spying on an older phone system could only be done in a few ways, migration towards VoIP networks could open the doors for people looking to gather personal and sensitive data. ... more >>>