TEAMFORREST

A hacker used an old-school technique to hack into the FEMA voicemail system and make $12,000.00 worth of calls to the Middle East and Asia. FEMA, which is under the Deparment of Homeland Security, should be very thankful to Sprint; it was Sprint that noticed the calls and stopped long distance access.

Lessons learned? If you’re allowing your voicemail system to initiate outbound calls, its a good idea to lock it down. Use good password. Require passwords to be changed from the default. And, really only allow outbound calls when absolutely required.

Read more about the FEMA incident at VoIP Tech Chat.