VoIP Now: VoIPSA to Define Threats

March 28, 2005

VoIPSA to Define Threats

Insight Research estimates that the global market for voice over IP will reach $196.5 billion by 2007 and that much of this growth has been driven by business. For the trend to continue, however, great strides need to be made to make VoIP networks more secure against hackers. The VoIP Security Alliance, formed in February 2005, announced today that they will discuss what can be done to combat threats to the IP community. According to Red Herring:

Hackers have already developed ways to take advantage of this burgeoning communication system. Malicious researchers are working to make IP telephones do their bidding.

Such threats could include filling a phone’s voicemail with unsolicited advertisements, or programming all the telephones in an office to simultaneously call the same number, be it your boss’ home phone number or a 1-900 pay-by-the-minute scam in the Bahamas.