{"id":3580,"date":"2007-11-26T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/its-easy-to-hack-voip\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:39:43","slug":"its-easy-to-hack-voip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/its-easy-to-hack-voip\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s easy to hack VOIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Dial up VOIP\" id=\"image3582\" title=\"Dial up VOIP\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/11\/1682676375_384041925f.png\" \/>At least that&#8217;s what UK based VOIP expert Peter Cox, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,139870-pg,1\/article.html\">demonstrated<\/a> with his Siptap software, which is able to &#8220;monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and (record) them for remote inspection as .wav files.&#8221; Run on a test network, the application was able to extract  sensitive information from a normal VoIP conversation. Still proof-of-concept, the experiment would probably have to be run on a wider scale to really demonstrate that it can work though.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of privacy in <a href=\"http:\/\/voip.en.softonic.com\/\">VoIP<\/a> connections is nothing new though, as anyone with a bit of networking knowledge can access packets of a VoIP flow from an unencrypted network and easily eavesdrop on a conversation. That&#8217;s why VoIP users need to make sure they follow a few steps to guarantee a minimum of privacy while chatting away. The best is to set up an encrypted network and just make sure you&#8217;re not giving away private information when you&#8217;re talking over VoIP. Also check out this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiplowdown.com\/2007\/voip-security-challenges-25-ways-to-secure-your-voip-network\/\">25 ways to secure your VoIP network<\/a>. It includes tips like restricting VoIP to a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), monitoring traffic on your VoIP network, setting up firewalls or using proxy servers. You&#8217;re never too safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s what UK based VOIP expert Peter Cox, demonstrated with his Siptap software, which is able to &#8220;monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and (record) them for remote inspection as .wav files.&#8221; Run on a test network, the application was able to extract sensitive information from a normal VoIP conversation. Still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/its-easy-to-hack-voip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to hack VOIP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336693,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/336693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}