Synopsis: Blue Box #73: SIP security issues at IETF 70, Skype security, vulnerabilities in Cisco and Nokia phones, Vietnam’s cyberdissidents, VoIP security news, listener comments and more…

Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #73, a 44-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.   

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NOTE: This show was recorded on December 11, 2007.

Show Content:

• 00:20 – Intro to the show, contact information and how to provide comments.  Welcome to all the new listeners – and to all those listeners who have been here for so long! 
• Voice of VOIPSA: Skype fixes flaw in Windows version
• Cisco 7940 Denial of Service
• Nokia N95 Remote Denial of Service using the SIP Stack
• Network World: VoIP Security Lessons Microsoft OCS Can Learn From Vonage and Others pointing over to series of posts on the Telecosm blog and the start of a series on VoIP security including DoS and anonymity
• VoIP News: Not Waiting For the Big One
• TechWorld: VoIP is the next big hack (follow up on Peter Cox)
• Globe and Mail: Cyberdissidents weaving along new path
• National Security Agency Certifies New Sectra vIPer Phone by General Dynamics for Top Secret Communications (sent in by Peter Thermos)
• Websense Predicts 2008’s Top Ten Security Threats
• International Telephone Services Company Deploys Secure Computing’s Sidewinder to Protect VoIP Communications
• Feature –  IETF 70
  • IETF 70 Agenda
  • Security a major discussion point
  • Media control – requirements and architecture to need more security work
  • SPEERMINT – Saverio Niccolini will bring security document back through
  • SIPPING – Spam Score and SRTP Key Disclosure and Updates to Asserted Identity – also covered in SPITting in your general direction
  • SIP – Media Identity and DTLS Framework
  • MMUSIC – big news was that ICE is now in the queue to be issued as an RFC
  • BEHAVE – TURN
  • P2PSIP – interesting discussion on NAT in P2P SIP and security in P2P SIP
• Comment (email) from Frank Leonhardt
• Comment (email) from Rhodri Davies
• Comment (email) from Peter Thermos
• Comment (email) from Ben Penson
• Review of the last week’s traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list 
• Wrap-up of the show
• 44:28 – End of show 

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