Google your Unified Communications & Collaborations (UC&C) Infrastructure May 27, 2010
Posted by admin in : Redshift Networks, Security Threats , add a commentIt’s surprising and often easy to note how widespread and far reaching internet is today. Long time ago, Johnny Long documented on internet how one can use Google searches effectively to search for relevant and confidential information over the internet.
There’s a lot of information around the network around this topic; surprisingly one using very simple scanning and discovery tools can find lot of information about companies that otherwise should never be disclosed. Most often, this is due to poor security controls being placed on information disclosure.
Do you know what information is available on the internet about your UC&C Infrastructure? Do you know if anybody can reconfigure your telephone from internet?
So, I started googling the web in search for specific information about edi UC&C infrastructures using some standard keywords as listed below. The results are very alarming and show that several UC&C internal networks and systems are publicly visible on the internet with very little security controls. Typical results ranged from absolutely no security enforcements being placed to limited security that uses default vendor published passwords that are easy for anyone to guess. (more…)
About this blog May 26, 2010
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My name is Amitava Mukherjee and I am the CEO of RedShift Networks. We are a company based in Silicon Valley, California, with offices around the world.
This blog is meant to address the growing concern of security threats and attacks around Unified Communications, Collaboration and video/voice web-based applications. (more…)