14 DAY TRIAL // More than a month ago, a hacker had been nabbed for breaking into VOIP networks and stealing one million dollars worth of voice minutes. This is the material I wrote on the matter at that time. Back then, he stated that he was working for a certain Eduard Pena and that he was very well paid. He needed the money to pay for his parents' medicines, that's why he did all of that nasty stuff. A bit of a sad case, but a crime is a crime, nonetheless.
Robert Moore is the person this article is all about. He accepted to respond to an Interview for InformationWeek. What he said is no surprise to me - the first thing he highlighted was related to company insecurity and hacking - "It's so easy. It's so easy a caveman can do it". This may sound funny to you, and all I can say is that the way he told it sure is funny as hell, but the facts sure aren't.
He said in the interview that many of the companies he hacked into were using default security passwords - that's like using "1234" as a PIN for your cell phone. You can't expect to maintain security in that way!
Here's what Moore stated for InformationWeek, statements which I strongly agree with:
"I think it's all their fault," he added. "They're using default passwords and their administrators don't even care. ... Anybody who has bad security, it's their fault. There are so many people out there who are malicious hackers who look for these vulnerable boxes. All this information is right on the Web and it's easy to find. They need to get more education and security in the VoIP industry. There were thousands of routers that were compromised in this, just from my scans alone."
This just goes to prove that security experts have a lot to learn from the people that hack them. Read the full interview with Robert Moore here, you might learn a thing or two!