Why VoIP is the next target for spammers

In what looks like a highly developed piece of irony, hackers have proven that Voice over internet Telephony (VoIP) accounts are prone to the nuisance of voice spam – by attacking the university where the co-author of the protocol that VoIP runs on is professor of computer science.

Industry experts believe that attacks over services such as Skype are moving from proof of concept to becoming a real threatIn what looks like a highly developed piece of irony, hackers have proven that Voice over internet Telephony (VoIP) accounts are prone to the nuisance of voice spam – by attacking the university where the co-author of the protocol that VoIP runs on is professor of computer science.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/nov/01/news.hacking

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