Researchers at HackLabs in Australia have demonstrated a live internet VOIP phone crack which they claim shows the security vulnerabilities inherent in Cisco internet phones.

The demonstration was one part of a VOIP hacking workshop at the AusCERT security conference, which accomplished its goal of showing that VOIP and corporate IP-driven telephony systems are at high risk of having communications intercepted and confidential information leaked. HackLabs said that their demonstration showed how VOIP systems can be vulnerable to popular hacking techniques, which means that call data can be downloaded from the IP phone and VOIP conversations can be redirected, illegally recorded or otherwise manipulated. These systems can be easily turned against their users via hacking to become networked listening devices (aka infinity bugs), wiretapped remotely or silenced to block out communications.