{"id":547860,"date":"2006-01-30T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T06:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547860-skype-can-mask-hacker-attacks.html"},"modified":"2006-01-30T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T06:19:31","slug":"skype-can-mask-hacker-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547860-skype-can-mask-hacker-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype can mask hacker attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The report says Crowcroft claims zombie networks could be controlled by messages hidden in VOIP traffic generated by programs such as Skype, saying it was easy to write code to use a VOIP overlay to hide control messages. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">DOS attacks are usually shut down by tracing control messages sent by chat and instant messaging programs. However, according to Crowcroft, if a hacker were to use a VOIP overlay as a control tool for attacks, it would be much harder to find the zombie computers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=36560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer expert Jon Crowcroft says the voice over IP (VOIP) system used by Skype is a brilliant tool to carry out denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, reports The Inquirer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}