Ang Cui has spent 10 years hacking into internet-connected office phones and other “embedded devices”—that is, devices that don't look like computers or servers but have all the trappings: a ...

So, we suddenly go from an office phone that we probably don’t use that much anymore to a phone that integrates your smartphone, configures your office pace, give you information about who is calling ...

For wireless networking, the device also supports 802.11a/b/g/n flavors of WiFi, 3G mobile data (Cisco doesn't specify UTMS or EV-DO; it could be both), and will "at a later date" support 4G ...

The exploit targets the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7900 series, which feature color LCDs and internet connectivity.

Hello, my name is Ang Cui. I am the founder and chief scientist of Red Balloon Security. So we took a Cisco phone. We took it apart, and we looked at it not like a telephone, but like a computer.