If you rely on Cisco TelePresence products for sensive business communications, you might want to stop what you are doing and pay attention to a new warning that hackers can exploit security flaws to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or inject malicious commands.
Cisco released four separate security advisories today to warn of the risks and urge TelePresence users to deploy patches, especially in sensitive business environments. (more)
Advisory 3
Advisory 4
Of course...
• Don't set up any teleconferencing system outside of your firewall.
• Don't turn the auto-answer feature on.
• Don't forget to set "mute mic" as a default.
In fact, just shut the whole thing off until you need it.
