Researchers were able to glean data from 10,000 meetings held by top Dutch gov officials
Cisco squashed some bugs this week that allowed anyone to view WebEx meeting information and join them, potentially opening up security and privacy concerns for highly sensitive meets.The bugs allowed onlookers to find meeting details such as where and when they were being held, the host's identity, duration, attendees, and its agenda.
Reporters were told it would be difficult to determine whether meetings and been spied on because the logs for them don't date back very far. that because WebEx has a single phone number dedicated to joining meetings via phone in each country, all an intruder would have to do is call that number and input the meeting ID to join surreptitiously. That's if it wasn't
Using this method, the researchers were able to discover that the German Federal Office for Information Security had held multiple meetings with the likes of Europol to discuss foreign espionage. The state capital of Munich is another bigcustomer in Germany, and investigators were able to suss out that the head of its IT department called a meeting with her staff every Monday morning at the same time.
"Our investigation is ongoing, and we continue to monitor for unauthorized activity. We will provide updates, if necessary, through regular channels."requested additional information from Cisco and the government of the Netherlands but received no response.
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