Voice of VOIPSA

For some weeks, Alec Saunders, ace blogger and iotum founder has been running a podcast experiment via Facebook. Iotum have created a free conference call application on Facebook (which works rather well in fact), and to showcase its use Alec and friends use the conference facility to record a daily podcast show called Squawkbox, talking about topical news in tech.

Today’s show was on the subject of voice phishing, a favourite topic of some of our friends here at VOIPSA. In fact, VOIPSA board members Dan York and Jonathan Zar (also the Blue Box Podcast team) were on Alec’s call today. So if you’ve time to give it a listen, it’s an interesting discussion, and it can be found here.

Blue Box Podcast #76 is now available discussing Cisco, Skype and BT
vulnerabilities, when SIP looks like SPIT, VoIP security threat
predictions and the FBI forgets to pay their bills, plus listener
comments and more…

Jonathan and I recorded the show on January 22nd and I’m now *almost*
caught up with 1 main show still in the production queue (and about
10 special editions!)

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Blue Box Special Edition #23 is now available for download. In this podcast I sat down with Bob Bradley from Sonus Networks to talk about their products and solutions, how they secure customers networks and how they are different from other similar products in the market. I believe you’ll find it an interesting and useful introduction to the company.

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After a bit of a production hiatus, Jonathan and I are back with Blue Box Podcast #75 where we talk about the VoIP security news back in early January. We talked about the Asterisk vulnerability out then, the SANS white paper on VoIP security, several other news items and a ton of listener comments. More information is available in the show notes.

Blue Box Podcast#73 is now available for download. In this show, Jonathan and I discuss SIP security issues at IETF 70, Skype security, vulnerabilities in Cisco and Nokia phones, Vietnam’s cyberdissidents, VoIP security news, listener comments and more..

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Blue Box Special Edition #22 is now available which explores and explains the details around SIP and NAT traversal. In this interview I sat down with Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg, a Cisco fellow and author of a wide range of RFCs and Internet-Drafts related to SIP to talk about SIP and NAT traversal. We explore what the problem is, how ALGs and SBCs attempt to solve the problem and how the IETF has looked to address the issue through first STUN, then TURN and now finally ICE. I think you’ll find it a very educational and informative session.

On a similar note, you may also be interested in Blue Box Special Edition #20 where I sat down with Cullen Jennings to talk about overall security issues with SIP. These two podcasts together give you a solid overview of the current security issues with SIP.

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Blue Box Podcast #72 is now available for download. In this episode, Jonathan and I discuss the Asterisk vulnerabilities that came out at the end of November, the German government’s interest in installing spyware in order to record Skype calls and a number of other VoIP security news items as well as listener comments.

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Blue Box Podcast #69 is now available for download. In this 46-minute episode, Jonathan and I discuss the Linksys SPA-941 vulnerability mentioned in the VOIPSEC list, a potential SIP DDoS, a new release of SIPVicious, a suggested Asterisk security roadmap, other VoIP security news, listener comments and more.

Over on the Blue Box site, I’m pleased to announce that I uploaded Blue Box Video Edition #1, our very first experiment with adding a video component to the podcast.  In this 5-minute video, I was out at VoiceCon San Francisco last week and interviewed Sachin Joglekar from Sipera Systems about the SIP softphone exploit they first demonstrated at Black Hat.  Comments and opinions are definitely welcome.  Would you like to see more of these type of videos?

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Blue Box Special Edition #18 is now available for download. This episode features Martyn Davies interviewing first Rod Hodgman from Covergence and then Jeff Carr from Borderware about the role of the Session Border Controller (SBC).  In each interview, he discusses the company, their products, the role of SBCs and poses the question “Do SBCs break SIP?”  Each of the interviewees also discussed a user of their products and provides other information about their company.  More information and pictures are available in the episode show notes.