Posted: 19th Sep, 2005 By: MarkJ
Symantec has warned that the growth of Voice-over-IP (
VoIP) Internet telephony products has also started to attract hackers:
But routing phone calls via the net makes Voip systems vulnerable to a whole series of security problems, notes the Symantec report.
The growing use of Voip could encourage the emergence of:
* audio spam that clogs voicemail boxes with spoken adverts
* voice phishing that tries to con people into handing over confidential details
* caller-ID spoofing which allows conmen to make it look like they are calling from a legitimate number such as a victim's bank
* call hi-jacking that re-directs calls to conmen and criminalsDenial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which involve bombarding networks with large amounts of data, are also on the increase. Roughly 927 are occurring everyday. More @
BBC News Online.