Voicemail passwords
Voicemail boxes have a history of being compromised for a variety of reasons. Besides simply listening to someone else's messages, voice mailboxes are often exploited because they have call-back or forward features which can be turned on remotely. One of the most popular strategies is to hack a voicemail box and forward that person's calls to an expensive international destination, racking up thousands of dollars of calls in a short amount of time. This makes voicemail password hacking popular even today.
Protection against weak voicemail passwords is fairly simple. FreeSWITCH stores voicemail passwords in plain-text in the database, allowing you to scan for passwords which are weak, such as 1111 or 1234. You can also ...
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