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Re: How to pentest Skype?


From: RS <rsoftin () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:19:51 +0530

Like any other product skype is also found vulnerable.
The latest one is http://secunia.com/advisories/20154/

You can try metaspoilt and/or other tools to actually exploit skype.

HTH

On 5/19/06, Chris Eagle <cseagle () redshift com> wrote:
4secure () web de wrote:
> Hello friends!
>
> I ask myself, how I can check the security of Skype?
> Unfortunately, with my searches on the Internet I could bring only very little  in experience about the technology 
behind Skype. Does somebody of you have experience with this? Where can I receive more information?
> Where, e.g., does the end to end encryption stop with SkypeOut? Where does it start with SkypeIn?
> My information mainly bases from the Skype homepage and wikipedia.org (incl. the references given there). I would be 
grateful for some information!
>

You might start with this Blackhat presentation:

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf

Chris

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