On Thursday, Cisco announced a new video desk phone designed with a hybrid workforce in mind. The new Cisco Video Phone 8875, which looks like a corporate desk phone with a large 7-inch touch screen, ...

Office phones have come a long way in a relatively short time. With the introduction of Internet Protocol phones, new features make those devices more akin to computers than simple phone systems.

Cisco released an advisory yesterday, warning that a number of its voice-over-IP phones can be hacked into, allowing anyone to listen in on phone calls and audio in the surrounding area. The hack ...

PhD student Ang Cui and computer science professor Salvatore Stolfo at the Columbia University Engineering school found that the entire range of 14 Unified IP Phone models from Cisco can be easily ...

Lending some credence to the idea that VOIP hacking will increase in 2008 is the hacking of Cisco phones that occurred on a hotel network earlier this year (the exploit is described here. Cisco has ...

Cisco SIP based phones have SIP extensions that use the SIP protocol for Cisco proprietary operations like registering a Cisco SIP phone by MAC Address. This blog will take a high level look at ...

This blog will be a break from the H.323 blog series I’m currently doing to discuss EoS and EoL information related to Cisco phones. One of my students has recently told me that Cisco would not sell ...

I manage a small office network (around 10 computers) for a client of mine, and they decided to get a new phone system without realizing it was an IP system. It is a Cisco IP phone system. Previously ...

The best VoIP desk phone is the Polycom VVX 601, offering an affordable and robust system that is easy to use for beginners while still providing a lot of features for larger operations. On top of ...

Many offices have IP phones, but did you know that they might be vulnerable to hackers? Depending on the phone, someone could use the device to spy on you remotely. We spoke with Ang Cui, ...