The key thing is to keep your voice and data seperate.
VoIP is good because it saves money, but its better because it brings more services and enriches your landline telephony experience.
I hear what you are saying about all eggs in once basket, but thats the way it is with anyone.
Go with someone reputable and try not to scrape the bottom of the barrel with a really ceap provider and you will be ok.
(We dont ever mix voice and data so these cyber attacks are never a problem for us either.)
Contrary to what is reported in the article, this was fixed in August 2009. See the link, love the SuSE :)
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:02:11 +0200
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The mmap_min_addr sysctl is now enabled by default to protect
against kernel NULL page exploits.
[SLE11, openSUSE 11.0-11.1]
The -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks compiler option is now used to
build the kernel to avoid gcc optimizing away NULL pointer checks.
Also -fwrapv is now used everywhere.
[SLES9, SLES10-SP2, SLE11, openSUSE]
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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this has already been
this has already been backported by most of the key vendors: i.e. redhat and debian, so most users are protected at this point