Verizon updates VOIP Hub

Verizon Wireless is looking to bring mobile applications to customers' homes, as it's planning to start an online store for its VOIP Hub, says Information Week.

The company released the Hub in January and it can make VOIP calls with the customer's broadband connection. The device can also send picture and video messages, as well as send unlimited SMS messages to Verizon's cellular subscribers.

Verizon is attempting to use the VOIP device to help it regain market share in the dwindling home phone market.

Researchers at Secure Science have discovered methods using botnets to make unauthorised calls from both Skype and the Google Voice services, reports Fierce VOIP.

The Skype attack would require a victim to visit a Web site within 30 minutes of being logged into Skype, but once done an attacker could add a specific call forwarding number, which gives them the ability to receive the victim's incoming calls, get a Skype-To-Go number, and access a victim's voicemail, speed dial, and outbound calling via spoofed caller-ID.

Google says it has patched the bugs and has added a password for its voice system.

Cellcrypt, a British vendor of software for encrypting cellphone calls, has set up shop in Silicon Valley and is getting a product ready for the BlackBerry, states TMCnet.

Cellcrypt Mobile is a downloadable, phone-based application that encrypts VOIP calls all the way from one handset to the other.

Versions of Cellcrypt Mobile are already available for Nokia N-Series and E-Series phones and many Windows Mobile devices, and by the end of June the company will introduce a client for BlackBerry phones.