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Spammers New Bad Habit: SPIT Spammers are seemingly endless in their pursuit to send their trashy unsolicited emails, pump out terrible spammy websites, flood blog comments including forums — the list goes on. In the VoIP world vishing has already become a problem. Now, a new spam acronym has been coined as the latest potential threat becomes known - it is SPIT or Spam over Internet Telephony. SPIT is being touted as problem waiting in the wings where spammers could clog up your voice mail, affect your network speeds including chew your bandwidth — including cause you a headache in the process. SPIT will additionally have a heavier footprint than just junk-email as you lose bandwidth or obtain penalized for over-usage (depending on your internet plan). Just imagine businesses with listed public telephone numbers using VoIP! Although SPIT hasn’t yet caused any major widespread problem yet — the threat is real including viable. a particular effective approach to combating SPIT could likely build on existing data-centric anti-spam technologies including focus on adapting them for the VoIP market. Solutions could need to be designed that address key VoIP issues including the need for real-time analysis of incoming traffic as very little delay should be introduced for users to be able to carry out a phone conversation.
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