Networks face a new threat with the growth of web telephony… Spit, or Spam
over Internet Telephony, security experts warn.
Hackers who manage to get into VoIP call-management servers could use them to
automate rogue calls in the same way PCs hijacked by trojans, and linked to form
botnets, are used to launch spam.
Instead of those emails inviting you to call Sexy Sadie in Solihull, you
might get Sadie herself calling you. Or someone trying to sell you a timeshare
in Bhagdad.
“It’s not something that is happening yet but it is something we talk about in
our labs. It is going to happen and we should begin to prepare for it now,” said
Johan Beckers, technical-solutions director at
Internet Security Systems
(ISS).
He points out that hacking has become more criminalised, with gangs
threatening to knock out sites by swamping them with messages in Denial of
Service attacks.
Beckers was speaking at a Netevents industry forum in Garmisch, Germany,
where he was introducing ISS’s suite of enterprise security products, which
including intrusion detection and prevention features.
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