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Special Forums Cybersecurity Fake MicroSoft calls Post 303011432 by Neo on Thursday 18th of January 2018 08:17:32 AM
Old 01-18-2018
I recall VoIP vulnerabilities over the years and for many years.

On another note, it is always important to keep in mind that (IT) RISK is the intersection of VULNERABILITY, THREAT & CRITICALITY.

So, even if there is a VULNERABILITY, if there is no real THREAT or CRITICALITY, then RISK is LOW.

For example, for someone who uses VoIP and is not a high profile person or spy or criminal etc who has THREATS and if a VULNERABILITY is exploited, it does not do critical harm (in the case of VoIP threats for most people who use VoIP daily), then the RISK is low.

I've been aware of possible VoIP exploits for many years, but it does not stop me from using the myriad technologies that use VoIP. This especially applies to VoIP technologies which are encrypted. LINE, What's App and I believe Skype are all encrypted and so exploiting these VoIP vulnerabilities are non trivial, as I recall, and so most users who use encrypted VoIP are not at high RISK.

There is also the RISK MITIGATION model, which combines TECHNICAL (LOGICAL) CONTROLS, PHYSICAL CONTROLS AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS, should be considered as well

Encrypting a VoIP channel is a TECHNICAL CONTROL and having a policy whereas HIGHLY SENSITIVE USERS do not use these apps unless approved is an ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL.

It is important to keep in mind that RISK MANAGEMENT and RISK MITIGATION is a multidimensional and multifaceted approach, so VULNERABILITIES must be viewed in context to the THREAT and CRITICALITY; and RISK MITIGATION must be viewed in terms of RISK and the "best" combination of controls (ADMIN, TECH, PHYSICAL) based on RISK (and this implies budget as well).

Cheers.
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murmur-user-wrapper(1)					      General Commands Manual					    murmur-user-wrapper(1)

NAME
murmur-user-wrapper - User wrapper for murmurd. SYNOPSIS
murmur-user-wrapper [options] DESCRIPTION
Murmur is the server component of Mumble, a low-latency, high quality VoIP application. Murmur-wrapper is a wrapper script to make it eas- ier for normal users to set up their own, private murmur server. OPTIONS
-d "directory" Set directory to use. By default, the wrapper script uses $HOME/murmur -s Check if murmur process is running. -k Terminate running murmur process. -i Initialize only, do not start the server. -p "password" Specify password for the SuperUser account and exit. SuperUser is the mumble equivalent of root, a special user which bypasses all access restrictions. NOTES
To create your own private server, you first want to run murmur-user-wrapper -i Then edit ~/murmur/murmur.ini to set the various configuration settings. The most important is probably the port; unless you're the only murmur process running on this server, you'll need to change it. When you're happy with your settings, you need to set the password for SuperUser, which is your administrator account. murmur-user-wrapper -p <password> Once this is done, simply run murmur-user-wrapper to start the server. SEE ALSO
murmurd(1). AUTHOR
mumble and murmurd was written by Thorvald Natvig <slicer@users.sourceforge.net>. 2008 May 09 murmur-user-wrapper(1)
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