Spam Over Internet Telephony and How to Deal with it

In our modern society telephony has developed to an omnipresent service. People are available at anytime and anywhere. Furthermore the Internet has emerged to an important communication medium. These facts and the raising availability of broadband internet access has led to the fusion of these two services. Voice over IP or short VoIP is the keyword, that describes this combination. The advantages of VoIP in comparison to classic telephony are location independence, simplification of transport networks, ability to establish multimedia communications and the low costs. Nevertheless one can easily see, that combining two technologies, always brings up new challenges and problems that have to be solved. It is undeniable that one of the most annoying facet of the Internet nowadays is email spam. According to different sources email spam is considered to be 80 to 90 percent of the email traffic produced. Security experts suspect that this will spread out on VoIP too. The threat of so calle...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ISSA
• Authors: Rachid El Khayari, Nicolai Kuntze, Andreas U. Schmidt
• Keywords: Email Spam, Information Technology, ISSA 2008, Sources Email Spam, Voice Spam