May 6, 2005

According to the VOIP Security Alliance and a new government report, Voice Over IP telephone services may be the next target for hackers and criminals. The major threat right now is denial of service, preventing people from using their VOIP phones making or receiving calls. Caller ID spoofing with the aid of VOIP networks is already a vulnerability being used by criminals. Other attacks, such as monitoring of conversations, are also possible since VOIP providers do not encrypt their traffic.

Here are the Links

The PC World Article

The NIST Report on VOIP Security (PDF)