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	Net phone customers brace for 'VoIP spam' \| Tech News on ZDNet
		So far, there have only been isolated cases of spam to homes, and only one known example of a corporate VoIP network spammed so heavily it was paralyzed, according to a handful of carriers surveyed this week.
		For example, Vonage, the largest residential VoIP services provider with some 200,000 subscribers, said it assigns phone numbers along with IP addresses, making it more difficult for spammers to generate hundreds of calls per minute, according to a company representative.
		An MCI spokeswoman said VoIP spam is "not an issue on the network because we are engineering a solution to prevent it." She said the company knows of no incidents to date of VoIP spam on the MCI network.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5302988.html (1092 words)

	anti-spam for IP telephony > Qovia Readies Tool To Block VoIP Spam > June 28, 2004
		VoIP spam is yet to be a problem, since Internet telephony adoption is just starting.
		Shipments of VoIP PBX phones are expected to grow at an annual compounded rate of more than 20 percent through 2009, while use of the older systems decline about the same rate, according to Insight Research.
		VoIP systems are not less expensive than traditional systems, however, they provide the potential of higher worker productivity by combing voice and data services, such as the ability to access voice mail through a notebook.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20040628S0009 (559 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Move over spam, make way for "spit"
		Spam and spim - spam by instant messenger - are about to be joined by "spit" - spam over internet telephony.
		Also known as voice-over IP (VoIP), it is rapidly rising in popularity thanks to the fact that internet connections are becoming faster, and because it is cheap - it avoids the taxes levied on landline calls.
		VoIP uses internet protocols to send information, meaning one message can easily be sent to thousands of recipients.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn6445 (516 words)

	broadband » News » VoIP Spam - And the companies who'll profit stopping it
		Unlike text spam blockers that scan for particular words, Qovia has algorithms to recognize certain patterns in calls that tend to be associated with recorded sales pitches, the company said.
		VoIP is a lot cheaper than paying a measured per minute business rate for local usage and long distance.
		Unless what they are trying to say is the spammer could use VoIP to broadcast his message to many numbers at once but this would have to include POTS numbers too.
	www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/46722 (1073 words)

	Wired News: Hold the Phone, VOIP Isn't Safe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		VOIP services have attracted few specific attacks so far, largely because the relatively small number of VOIP users doesn't make them a worthwhile target.
		Endler paints a picture in which an attack on a VOIP service could mean people would eavesdrop on conversations, interfere with audio streams, or disconnect, reroute or even answer other people's phone calls.
		Today's effort is to ensure that VOIP systems are reinforced "before it gets to the point that there are easily available tools for the script kiddies to use," he said.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,66512,00.html (1117 words)

	broadband » News » VoIP Spam - Automated services could pose threat
		CNET reports on the inevitable emergence of VoIP spam, which could mix the speed and efficiency of spam with the vocal irritation of traditional telemarketing.
		Spam over the phone would be a total turn off for me. I am on the "do not call list" and if there was any chance I would get spam with VoIP then I would not consider getting this service although my ISP will be launching it in November.
		VoIP is about a 100kbit stream constantly, to send out 1000 calls at once would surely take a 100mbit connection to keep it going smoothly.
	www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/51644 (1416 words)

	Phishing SpamInformation and links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spam and Phishing: Email users get more spam, but the harmful impact of unsolicited messages is diminishing for...
		Spam and phishing are among the top e-mail complaints from our customers...
		Spam is being used in two new tactics: 'phishing' schemes and targeted viruses.
	www.seespyware.com /phishing-spam.html (977 words)

	VoIP to Fuel Plague of 'Dialing for Dollars'
		He said that the influx of unwanted calls over VoIP (define) comes from a combination of two things: a cheap labor force working in countries like India and China, and the price of Internet telephony, which has cut costs down by a factor of 100.
		To make a distinction, Cohen's scenario is not necessarily spam over Internet telephony, or SPIT, which he defines as an automated process.
		Cohen said this is also a problem for VoIP providers like Vonage and Skype, which do not own any of the infrastructures their services run on.
	www.internetnews.com /xSP/article.php/3489591 (1180 words)

	Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP spam - it's coming - silicon.com
		Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) looks to be the next big deal, a business disrupter that could change everything in the telecoms world.
		This means those who moved to 100 per cent VoIP service have experienced the nasty surprises of sporadic service failures lasting from seconds to days.
		VoIP spam - an endless series of automated advertising and human enquiry annoyances delivered over a voice network.
	www.silicon.com /research/specialreports/voip/0,3800004463,39123841,00.htm (1475 words)

	The War on Spam : Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The war on spam is a battle that no doubt will be fought for years to come.
		Zombie Networks Account for Majority of Spam in June During June, spam sent through zombie PCs accounted for an average of 62 percent of all spam filtered by the MX Logic Threat Center.
		I recently did some spam tests on a temporarily and newly created e-mail account on my Linux machine and found out about 2/5 of incoming spam/junk e-mails were with bogus returned addresses in the first 30 minutes.
	voip-forum.tmcnet.com /voip-forum/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5072 (2618 words)

	VoIP Now
		VoIP offers a very distinct advantage if the company has several locations but for a single office, a change to VoIP may need more justification than just reduced charges.
		VoIP calls through this service to the US and the UK can be made for less than 5 cents per minute.
		The new integrated VoIP processor chip announced by Broadcom, the Broadcom® BCM1161, is a second generation VoIP processor that consumes low power and provides advanced multimedia functionalities such as a 2 megapixel digital camera, voice and video record/playback, etc. The BCM1161 also allows conferencing and high-fidelity voice capability.
	www.voipnow.org (721 words)

	Techdirt:Now We Need To Worry About VoIP Spam
		We're still trying to beat down spam, and people have been getting increasingly worried about IM spam and SMS spam, and all of a sudden one company is warning us that the rush to VoIP systems may lead to VoIP spam.
		In other words, once VoIP is just an app on the network, it shouldn't be all that difficult for someone to write a script that would basically spam a voice message to millions of VoIP systems.
		However, there is almost no spam in voice over IP networks since they are not very common yet.
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20040625/0944241.shtml (563 words)

	Kill Voice Spam Before It Grows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But some industry observers are cautioning that the open nature of a VoIP phone call makes it easy for spammers to send audio-commercials to peoples VoIP voice-mail inboxes in much the same way they carpet bomb e-mail inboxes today.
		He was able to thwart the effort, however, by blocking the IP address of the sendersimilar to how e-mail spam is often stopped today.
		But VoIP is marching toward widespread adoption; research firm IDC predicts that by 2008, the U.S. consumer market for VoIP will reach $5.6 billion, up from $320 million this year.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/04/10/wo_hellweg101104.asp?trk=nl (828 words)

	Fool.com: From Spam to SPIT [Motley Fool Take] September 28, 2004
		Spam on your cell phone is only a matter of time.
		Enterprise level VoIP is expected to grow 20% annually through 2009, according to Insight Research.
		Yet if the problems of spam are any indication -- salacious messages, stock scams, viruses, denial-of-service attacks -- the problem shouldn't be a long time coming.
	www.fool.com /News/mft/2004/mft04092812.htm (630 words)

	VoIP Progress Can’t Come at the Expense of Security - The VoIP Weblog - voip.weblogsinc.com _ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		You couldn’t spam using a commercial VoIP service such as Vonage, because the device you use to place calls through their network is authenticated with a SIP proxy at their data center.
		Even with the threat of VoIP spam, however, it’s hard to deny the appeal of a global voice network that’s free of the heavily-regulated, legacy-ridden, barely-profitable carriers that run the system of the last 25 years.
		So, while the spam problem isn’t going away tomorrow, further reliance upon the international IP network is going to force us to re-think the trust that is built-in to legacy telephony applications.
	voip.weblogsinc.com /entry/1234000107037639 (1460 words)

	Free VoIP News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Looking to head off "VoIP spam" before it becomes an unbearable problem, software developer Qovia has filed a patent application for a method to identify and block VoIP spam and prevent security problems such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that have the potential to overload voice servers and affect system reliability.
		VoIP spam, also known as spam over Internet telephony (SPIT), is a combination of telemarketing calls and email spam in which a single "caller" uses Internet technology to send thousands of voice messages simultaneously into callers' VoIP voice mailboxes.
		One of the worrying things about VoIP, at least from a law enforcement point of view, is its resistance to wiretaps.
	www.fiercevoip.com /archives/voip063004.asp (1046 words)

	Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Unwanted Calls and Spam on VoIP
		Fred Cohen is predicting that VoIP will bring with it a flood of unsolicited commercial phone calls.
		VoIP may be crappy now, but it probably won’t stay that way.
		I think that VoIP will make it easier to prove a violation by a company that is using a telemarketer, and to fine that vendor.
	www.freedom-to-tinker.com /archives/000782.html (1046 words)

	Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While there are no standards yet for stopping VoIP spam, industry experts say that the same techniques learned in the email world will work.
		VoIP spam is much more deadly than its email cousin.
		With VoIP spam, the gateways are hit directly which degrades voice quality, something which is very noticeable to end users.
	www.tomshardware.com /hardnews/20041007_122306.html (707 words)

	PCWorld.com - Experts Warn of VoIP Security Flaws
		VoIP has many advantages over traditional telephone networks, both in cost advantages and value-added services such as integrated multimedia and file transfer, experts say.
		Consumer-oriented VoIP services such as Vonage Holdings do transmit voice over the public Internet, he said, and might be vulnerable to such attacks.
		Skype, which offers a PC-based, peer-to-peer VoIP service similar to an instant-messaging application, is a case in point.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,116453,00.asp (1080 words)

	Spreading Spam - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But one thing made the spam unusual: It was delivered not to regular e-mail in-boxes but via text messaging to Verizon Wireless cell phone service.
		The spread of spam to new networks is inevitable, says Richard Tworek, chief executive of Qovia, a Maryland company that makes equipment to monitor VoIP systems.
		The spam proliferation is an unforeseen dark side of the much-ballyhooed "convergence" of phone systems and Internet-style networks.
	www.forbes.com /technology/2004/09/01/cz_sw_0901spam.html (674 words)

	Spam, DoS Headed VoIP's Way
		"Spam is a small piece of the much bigger issue of voice security in the IP world," Arnold said.
		VoIP systems require every customer to have a terminal adapter at their locations.
		"Someone is going to use [VoIP] for spam." Since every other medium has been the conduit of unwanted marketing messages, from bulk faxes to telemarketing to IM spam, he said, Qovia engineers began to research whether it was possible to broadcast voicemail.
	www.internetnews.com /infra/article.php/3398331 (869 words)

	VoIP spam--it's coming \| Tech News on ZDNet
		COMMENTARY--Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) looks to be the next big deal, a business disrupter that could change everything in the telecoms world.
		It is interesting to note at this point that around 80 per cent of the capacity of the internet is consumed by spam, virus, worms, spyware, denial of service attacks and other malware.
		VoIP spam--an endless series of automated advertising and human enquiry annoyances delivered over a voice network.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-1009_22-5359987.html (1272 words)

	LinuxElectrons™ - Voice Spam Blocking Technology Patents Filed by Qovia
		The patent application, titled, "System and Method for Broadcasting VoIP Messages," covers the use of VoIP for emergency broadcast as well as provides for methodologies to prevent inappropriate use of VoIP applications such as Spam over Internet Telephony, also known as SPIT or VoIP Spam.
		VoIP Spam is a combination of telemarketing calls and e-mail spam in which a single "caller" uses Internet technology to send thousands of voice messages simultaneously into callers' VoIP voice mailboxes.
		"VoIP Spam must be stopped before it even starts," said Winn Schwartau, an analyst with Interpact.
	www.linuxelectrons.com /article.php/20040628114220408 (627 words)

	Phishing, VoIP and spam top 2005 messaging agenda - Information World Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Phishing, regulatory compliance, voice over IP, and spam will be major themes for the messaging industry in 2005, according to analysts' predictions offered today.
		A report by Ferris Research suggests that 90 per cent of all mailboxes experiencing a spam problem will be protected by commercial anti-spam offerings by the end of 2005.
		The study also noted that phishing and spyware will be demonstrated as a problem not limited to consumer mailboxes in the coming year.
	www.iwr.co.uk /vnunet/news/2126440/phishing-voip-spam-top-2005-messaging-agenda (385 words)

	PCWorld.com - VoIP Security Alliance Forms
		The group hopes to spur adoption of VoIP by promoting best practices for companies that adopt VoIP, and by warning organizations of threats, including spam and denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, according to Dave Endler, director of digital vaccine at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com Corporation.
		Deploying VoIP also raises the stakes for network outages, including DOS attacks, because organizations lose voice as well as network services in such attacks, he says.
		Membership in the VoIP Security Alliance is dominated by companies, but is open to individual researchers and university research groups, as well as to Internet telephony enthusiasts who are experts in the technology, Endler says.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,119600,00.asp (539 words)

	Net phone customers brace for 'VoIP spam' - Communications - News - ZDNet Asia
		Wednesday, August 11 2004 10:37 AM If you're sick of spam, imagine wading through dozens of prerecorded porn and Viagra messages on your voice mail.
		Technology research firm IDC predicts VoIP revenue will grow from US$3.3 billion in 2003 to US$15.1 billion by 2007.
		The nation's two largest long-distance companies, ATandT and MCI, say the VoIP spam issue is on their agenda.
	www.zdnetasia.com /news/communications/0,39044192,39189672,00.htm (1009 words)

	Cyrillic Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We have some fairly advanced spam filtering at TMC but I am always cautious with spam, erring on the side of checking everything and not letting anything get deleted without checking it at least once.
		We have the option to delete items marked as spam and I don't do this unless the sender is on a fllist.
		One of our spam filters -- yes we have a few on the server and locally, on each machine -- changes the subject line to tell you why the message is marked as spam.
	voip-blog.tmcnet.com /blog/rich-tehrani/voip/cyrillic-spam.html (397 words)

	Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In an attempt to prevent the spread of VoIP Spam, Qovia has created an application that can identify unsolicited and unwanted messages and differentiate these messages from those that recipients desire to receive.
		Qovia plans to incorporate this tool into a security module that will be available as part of the company’s VoIP Monitoring and Management System (VMMS) later this year.
		Qovia is designed to run on top of the network, outside the critical path of voice packets, so adding Qovia to a VoIP network does not add any additional layers of complexity or risk.
	www.qovia.com /company/news/06.28.2004_voip_spam_patent_app_final.htm (573 words)

	Canning Spam
		Spam and phishing are increasingly troublesome, and companies must implement safeguards, analysts say.
		FTC vows to defeat spam with aggressive law enforcement and e-mail authentication schemes, but panelists at the E-mail Authentication Summit are doubtful.
		As enterprises continue to register Sender Protection Framework records, hoping to thwart spam and phishing attacks, spammers are upping the ante in the war on spam and registering their own SPF records.
	www.eweek.com /category2/0,1738,1304524,00.asp (2493 words)

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