Skype & VoIP Open Doors For Spammers
NO SOONER have vendors turned their attention to providing mobile phone users with access to low cost VoIP networks, than analyst firm, Ferris Research, is warning that it will open up handsets to all the dangers of the Internet.
As VoIP means that an Internet MAC address effectively becomes a telephone number, it will be possible to make thousands of simultaneous Internet ‘calls’, according to Ferris. Those calls could end up as ’spam’ voice messages which clog up your phone’s voice mailbox.
Then there will be loads of ‘phishing’ attacks where hackers use virtually untraceable VoIP numbers to call vulnerable people and trick them into giving out personal information.
The most outrageous Ferris claim, reported by The Business is that hackers will be able to break into VoIP calls and overhear consumers giving out their credit cards details to theatres and cinemas.
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