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whitepaper Viruses, hacker attacks, harmful spam, and other threats continue to outpace legitimate email--affecting even text messaging, instant messaging, and Voice over IP (VoIP). Email and other messaging technologies are evolving fast--and bringing new...
[06 Mar 2008]
Photo Pictured here is a setup to demonstrate a system that protects corporate VoIP networks from spam attacks. Some of the projects include technology to improve road safety, boost the appeal of IPTV and to protect VoIP networks from attack.
[21 Jan 2008]
News VoIP networks are potentially open to phishing (or 'vishing'), spam and denial of service attacks and could be increasingly targeted by hackers according to the NCC. IT body the National Computing Centre (NCC) is warning that although organisations...
[04 Sep 2007]
Comment Spam on softphones and IP handsets - often called spit - has been widely reported as a future threat. While Skype's strong encryption prevents interception and eavesdropping, the software is still vulnerable to the vishing (phishing scams over VoIP...
[02 Apr 2007]
Comment The problem with VoIP spam is that email anti-spam methods will not work. While the above network vulnerabilities present a very real and present danger to businesses deploying VoIP, media attention has lingered on the potential danger of spam over...
[22 Mar 2007]
News While the benefits of VoIP are clear, in terms of cheaper calls and extra functionality for phone systems, there are also security risks in the form of denial of service attacks, spam, hacking and eavesdropping.
[16 Mar 2007]
Comment Up to now there have not been a great many instances of VoIP spam but there is great potential for it to become a major problem. Spit could be generated in a similar way to email spam with botnets targeting millions of VoIP users from compromised...
[09 Mar 2007]
News Networking vendor NEC has warned businesses that telephony spam levels are about to soar. Telephony spam could soon comprise more than half of all phone calls, the company said, potentially causing worker productivity to plummet.
[29 Jan 2007]
News Spam, phishing and denial of service could all soon be threatening VoIP services, and businesses need to take steps now to ward off the danger. These future threats include voice spam, where voice messages inundate company networks, and phishing...
[13 Nov 2006]
Comment Have you noticed the amount of spam rising? The scope of sites is vast - from music and movies and games through eBay, shopping, chatrooms, alternative reality sites, instant messaging, videoconferencing, VoIP and much more.
[21 Aug 2006]
whitepaper The webcast analyzes available technologies for securing VOIP payloads to assure call privacy, as well as describes techniques for securing call-control signaling to prevent theft-of-service, denial-of-service, and VOIP spam.
[19 May 2006]
News In traditional scams, miscreants try to pilfer personal information by sending spam email with links to a malicious website, crafted to look like a site belonging to a trusted service provider. Anti-spam technology can block the email scams...
[28 Apr 2006]
whitepaper Once implemented on the call server, the method enables service providers or enterprises to block external spam sources targeting their voice networks. Voice over IP (VoIP) technology introduces powerful choices to spammers and telemarketers.
[20 Apr 2006]
Comment We certainly face a lot of the more common ones, or the more frequently talked about ones, be it spam, be it the viruses and worms but we have mitigated to a great degree the risks associated with those.
[17 Feb 2006]
News Internet phone services such as Skype and Vonage could provide a means for cyber criminals to send spam and launch attacks that cripple websites, experts have warned. The Communications Research Network said on Wednesday: "VoIP applications could...
[26 Jan 2006]
News UK spam scandal deeper and messier than feared This year alone we've written 246 stories about Apple, 220 on outsourcing, 214 about Google, 209 about BT, 201 about Microsoft, 161 on VoIP, 134 on viruses, 112 on spyware, 99 on RFID, 94 about Dell...
[22 Dec 2005]
News Hackers will attack voice over IP (VoIP) telephone conversations with spam and malicious code within two years, equipment manufacturer Nortel has claimed. Atul Bhatnager, VP of enterprise networks, said: "VoIP attacks are still at an early stage...
[19 Oct 2005]
Leader Last but not least, it's no surprise - given the continued disruption to business and user's lives from malware and spam - security makes a big showing. Plenty of today's upstarts made the list, including voice over IP players Niklas Zennstrom (4...
[27 Sep 2005]
AS Analysis Last but not least, it's no surprise - given the continued disruption to business and user's lives from malware and spam - security makes a big showing. Plenty of today's upstarts made the list, including voice over IP players Niklas Zennstrom (4...
[26 Sep 2005]
AS Profile Along with buyouts, the year has seen eBay test the water for digital music downloads and fight back at the scammers using its name in their spam and phishing exploits. After rumours that the likes of Google and Rupert Murdoch were sniffing around...
[23 Sep 2005]
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