On Thursday, Cisco announced a new video desk phone designed with a hybrid workforce in mind. The new Cisco Video Phone 8875, which looks like a corporate desk phone with a large 7-inch touch screen, ...

Ang Cui has spent 10 years hacking into internet-connected office phones and other “embedded devices”—that is, devices that don't look like computers or servers but have all the trappings: a processor ...

From smartphones to tablets, Wi-Fi to 3G/4G: I cover telecom & mobile. This article is more than 10 years old. These are boom times for Cisco and its Internet Protocol phones. The networking giant ...

Office phones have come a long way in a relatively short time. With the introduction of Internet Protocol phones, new features make those devices more akin to computers than simple phone systems.

Cisco released an advisory yesterday, warning that a number of its voice-over-IP phones can be hacked into, allowing anyone to listen in on phone calls and audio in the surrounding area. The hack ...

Cisco SIP based phones have SIP extensions that use the SIP protocol for Cisco proprietary operations like registering a Cisco SIP phone by MAC Address. This blog will take a high level look at ...

PhD student Ang Cui and computer science professor Salvatore Stolfo at the Columbia University Engineering school found that the entire range of 14 Unified IP Phone models from Cisco can be easily ...

This blog will be a break from the H.323 blog series I’m currently doing to discuss EoS and EoL information related to Cisco phones. One of my students has recently told me that Cisco would not sell ...

Cisco has disclosed a vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco SPA112 2-Port Phone Adapters, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the devices.

Many offices have IP phones, but did you know that they might be vulnerable to hackers? Depending on the phone, someone could use the device to spy on you remotely. We spoke with Ang Cui, ...

Lending some credence to the idea that VOIP hacking will increase in 2008 is the hacking of Cisco phones that occurred on a hotel network earlier this year (the exploit is described here. Cisco has ...