RE: Cambridge Professor Warns of Skype Botnet Threat

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Agreed. :-)

But that brings up an interesting point -- can you imagine a SIP
worm?

- ferg


-- "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:

You just have to know that half or more of the people who read this will
think that the systems are being infected through VOIP, but it's only being
used as a back door channel of communications for systems that have already
been infected through some other means.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:19 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Cambridge Professor Warns of Skype Botnet Threat

I see Jon's busy stirring things up. :-)

Via TechWorld.

[snip]

Voice-over-IP apps could be used to cloak networks of zombies, used to
launch denial of service attacks, a Cambridge professor has warned.

Armies of ordinary PCs - "botnets" - that have been infected by a virus and
put under malicious control, could be controlled and orchestrated by
messages hidden in VoIP traffic generated by programs such as Skype, warned
Jon Crowcroft, Marconi professor of communications systems at Cambridge
University.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5232

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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