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Special Forums Cybersecurity Fake MicroSoft calls Post 303011432 by Neo on Thursday 18th of January 2018 08:17:32 AM

01-18-2018

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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).

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timetrans

TIMETRANS(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     TIMETRANS(1p)

NAME

       timetrans - Converts time into time

SYNOPSIS

	 timetrans [units-options] [-count]

DESCRIPTION

       timetrans converts time from one type of unit to another.  If any of the units options are specified, then timetrans will convert those
       time units into the number of seconds to which they add up.  If given the count option, timetrans will convert that number of seconds into
       the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.  The converted result is printed out.  Units options cannot be
       specified in the same execution as the count option, and vice versa.

       timetrans is intended for use with DNSSEC-Tools, for calculating a zone's expiration time.

OPTIONS

   Units Options
       The converted value of each unit is totaled and a single result printed.

       -seconds seconds
	   Count of seconds to convert to seconds.

       -minutes minutes
	   Count of minutes to convert to seconds.

       -hours hours
	   Count of hours to convert to seconds.

       -days days
	   Count of days to convert to seconds.

       -weeks weeks
	   Count of weeks to convert to seconds.

   Count Option
       The specified seconds count is converted to the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

       -count seconds
	   Count of seconds to convert to the appropriate set of units.

   Other Options
       timetrans has the following miscellaneous options.

       -Version
	   Displays the version information for timetrans and the DNSSEC-Tools package.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1:  Converting 5 days into seconds

	   $(42)> timetrans -days 5
	   432000

       Example 2:  Converting 2 weeks into seconds

	   $(43)> timetrans -w 2
	   1209600

       Example 3:  Converting 8 days and 8 hours into seconds

	   $(44)> timetrans -d 8 -hours 8
	   720000

       Example 4:  Converting 1 week, 1 day, and 8 hours into seconds

	   $(46)> timetrans -w 1 -days 1 -h 8
	   720000

       Example 5:  Converting 14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, and 8 seconds into seconds

	   $(47)> timetrans -w 14 -d 4 -h 21 -m 8 -s 8
	   8888888

       Example 6:  Converting 720000 seconds into time units

	   $(48)> timetrans -c 720000
	   1 week, 1 day, 8 hours

       Example 7:  Converting 1814421 seconds into time units

	   $(49)> timetrans -c 1814421
	   3 weeks, 21 seconds

       Example 8:  Converting 8888888 seconds into time units

	   $(50)> timetrans -c 8888888
	   14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, 8 seconds

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004-2012 SPARTA, Inc.  All rights reserved.  See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

AUTHOR

       Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com

SEE ALSO

       zonesigner(8)

       Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::timetrans.pm(3)

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-21							     TIMETRANS(1p)