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Feb 28 2008   2:30AM GMT

Overheard: Using caller ID spoofing to listen to someone else’s voicemail



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Security, caller ID spoofing, Telecom
rick_fiore.gif Another problem that has arisen with Caller ID Spoofing is when a voicemail service uses only CID to authenticate a mailbox holder and does not ask for the pin. You can actually get in and listen to messages on someone else’s account. I have seen it done with a mobile phone’s voicemail account on a prepaid phone from Cingular (now AT&T).

Rick Fiore, IT manager

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