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Researchers: Skype May Whack Your Network

Running Skype on a business network can cause big-time security woes, say a pair of French researchers. At this month's BlackHat Europe security conference, they released a 98-page paper that warned, among other things, that with Skype it is "impossible to scan for trojan/backdoor/malware."

They report plenty of other problems as well. Their conclusions are the most frightening. They claim it is "hard to enforce a security policy with Skype."

They say Skype is "incompatible with traffic monitoring, IDS." Networking Pipeline | Blog | Researchers: Skype May Whack Your Network

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