想必大家都关注到了这次获得媒体广泛关照的丰田汽车召回事件，Google上面搜索“丰田汽车召回”，刚刚的搜索结果数是8.8M+。虽然说 汽车家电等召回事件在中国国内，拜国内消费者“保护”所赐，不是很多，消费者大都哑巴吃黄连了。可是，这在西方发达国家是惯例 – 你生产的产品出了质量问题，召回-免费修补是天经地义的事情。
回过来在看看我们所处的IT和软件业呢？大家随便找到一份商业软件的license agreement等，逼着你签过字的那种，都明明白白写着 – 本软件“as-is”；不保证不出漏洞；出了漏洞不保证什么时候可以出补丁；出了补丁，不保证那个补丁管用；软件使用中出了事故，赔偿金额不会超过软件价格；….
在IT和软件作为新兴行业时，对这种高风险的新生事物特例一些保护是可以理解的。但是，当这个行业里占据了越来越多的500强、产生了越来越多的亿万富翁时，对此基本市场义务的反思就成为很容易理解的动向了。
SANS和Mitre Corp，这两个大名鼎鼎的组织联袂发起了这个很有思想性的项目。说其“很有思想性”，是因为我想这个问题也有不少时间了。为软件和安全厂商工作，这种感觉不会有，或不会很明显。但是作为内部IT运行人员就不一样了。你的病毒系统误杀了几千台电脑的软件，搞当了数百个服务器，我居然无法通过合同/许可条款获得正常的赔偿？很让人窝火。你的软件出了漏洞，厂商不但迟迟不响应补丁，还似乎成了用户的责任 – 当初签字画押时就说好的 as-is… Read more…
Today SANS announced the 2006 version of their annual “Top-20 Internet Security Attack Targets” and for the first time, VoIP is included as one of the threats. It was listed as N1:
N1.1 Description
VoIP technology has seen rapid adoption during the past year. At the same time, there has been an increase in security scrutiny of typical components of a VoIP network such as the call proxy and media servers and the VoIP phones themselves. Various products such as Cisco Unified Call Manager , Asterisk and a number of VoIP phones from various vendors have been found to contain vulnerabilities that can either lead to a crash or a complete control over the vulnerable server/device. By gaining a control over the VoIP server and phones, an attacker could carry out VoIP phishing scams, eavesdropping, toll fraud or denial-of-service attacks.
Since many VoIP servers especially the ones at VoIP service providers are an interface between SS7 (traditional phone signaling) and IP networks, an attacker capable of compromising a vulnerable VoIP server could even potentially manipulate the SS7 signaling interconnection to disrupt services on the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
See more comments and report at VoIPsa blog.
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