‘How I CRASHED my bank, stole PINs with a touch-tone phone’

Miscreants can crash or infiltrate banks and help desks’ touch-tone and voice-controlled phone systems with a single call, a security researcher warns.

Rahul Sasi, who works for iSight Partners, said audio processing algorithms in office telephone networks and speech-driven command software are liable to crash when bombarded with unusual data in so-called fuzzing attacks.