[pchelpers] News: Hackers eying internet telephony

 Brad Howarth
February 28, 2006

AUSTRALIAN businesses enjoying voice over internet protocol telephony 
could have less than 12 months before their networks become a target of 
malicious activity.

Messaging security company MessageLabs's Asia-Pacific vice-president 
James Scollay says the likelihood of increased threats against VoIP 
networks means MessageLabs will introduce services for net phone 
management and security later this year or early next year.

"VoIP is very clearly a likely next target in information security, 
because it is close to the critical mass needed to make it worth a 
criminal's time to target it," Scollay says.

"We are predicting the first VoIP threats will start to emerge towards 
the end of this year and will become common in 2007."

Just as the proliferation of email opened up a vast wave of spam, 
Scollay says, increasing use of VoIP may lead to an flood of spit (spam 
over IP telephony).
More here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18264652%255E2702,00.html

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