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Security Honeymoon Over For VoIP

Luc Hatlestad writes on VARBusiness:

Last month's FBI arrest of a man in Miami for allegedly hacking into the networks of Internet service providers has ushered in a new era for voice over IP technology (VoIP).

Naturally, VoIP inevitably was going to have to deal with the same type of security concerns that other data networks have faced. But the security space moves fast, and in recent months VoIP security has gone from an impending issue to a top-of-mind problem for vendors, VARs and users.

The Miami case, in which the alleged offender is accused of tapping into IP telephony networks to fraudulently sell more than 10 million minutes of calls, represents an escalation from simple denial- and loss-of-service threats to more serious theft-of-service attacks. Commenting on the case, Nemertes Research said that "converged networks lead to converged threats," and that such attacks are likely to continue, if not become more prevalent.

posted by Fergie @ 7/19/2006 12:36:00 PM