back to article 'How I CRASHED my bank, stole PINs with a touch-tone phone'

Miscreants can crash or infiltrate banks and help desks' touch-tone and voice-controlled phone systems with a single call, a security researcher warns. Rahul Sasi, who works for iSight Partners, said audio processing algorithms in office telephone networks and speech-driven command software are liable to crash when bombarded …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Video showed

    nothing... what did he achieve here exactly?

    Used to have great fun with DTMF pads from Tandy in years gone by but... .don't see anything here...

  2. Vin King
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    After watching that video...

    ...I'm convinced much attention is being paid to garbage. He didn't successfully attack any system. He had a test system he bounced some goofy crap off of that really didn't do anything. Since most IVR systems I've used use # and * for the vast majority of the actions you can do, * is rarely interpreted as "times." I tried this YAY MATH approach with the IVR for my bank just now, and as soon as I mash *, I'm greeted with a lovely voice telling me I've entered an invalid response.

    Much dumd in this.

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