{"id":318,"date":"2005-10-26T04:48:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T21:48:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-26T04:48:58","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T21:48:58","slug":"skype-safe-not-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/skype-safe-not-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype safe? Not anymore.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple security flaws in the popular Skype voice chat application could put millions of users at risk of computer takeover attacks, the company acknowledged Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Skype Technologies S.A., which is being acquired by eBay Inc., warned in two separate advisories that the vulnerabilities could lead of system access or denial-of-service attacks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Skype program, which uses peer-to-peer technology to route phone calls over the Internet, is one of the most popular desktop applications sitting behind firewalls, making the threat vector even more serious.<\/p>\n<p>Internet security researchers have long warned that flaws in Internet-facing desktop applications that sit behind a firewall present a lucrative target for malicious hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The acknowledgement of security holes in Skype comes at a crucial time for the company, which counts about 60 million registered enterprise and consumer users.<br \/>\nmore from [url=http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,1877052,00.asp]eWeek[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple security flaws in the popular Skype voice chat application could put millions of users at risk of computer takeover attacks, the company acknowledged Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-58","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}