[pchelpers] News: VoIP Security Alert: Hackers Start Attacking For Cash
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:22:18 +1200
VoIP could become the newest opportunity for cyberthieves, with the
recent arrest of a Miamian only the beginning.
By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
Jun 8, 2006 11:23 PM
IP phone crooks are learning how to rake in the dough. An owner of two
small Miami Voice over IP telephone companies was arrested last week and
charged with making more than $1 million by breaking into third-party
VoIP services and routing calls through their lines. That let him
collect from customers without paying any fees to route calls.
Hacking has become a decidedly for-profit crime, with crooks intent on
theft rather than disruption. Voice over IP hasn't been a big target,
but only because crooks haven't figured out how to make money off
breaking in.
In that sense, Edwin Pena is a pioneer if federal prosecutors'
allegations are true. Edwin Pena had been making easy cash for almost 18
months and sold about 10 million minutes before law enforcement caught
up with him yesterday morning, prosecutors say. The newfound magnate is
alleged to have lavishly spent his takings on luxury cars, a 40-foot Sea
Ray motorboat, and Miami-area real estate. Now he faces losing all that
and spending up to 25 years in jail, in addition to paying $500,000 in
fines.
More here:
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