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Top 5 VOIP Threats In 2007 & How To Safeguard From Them This article is mainly discussing possible voip threats to users & providers in 2007 including in coming years. 1) Inter-Company Toll Frauds: Where a particular outsider including a particular employee of a VOIP company obtain together including run a Toll-free VOIP business but charges the customers. Providers obtain 0 dollars since the employee routes all the call from provider's phone including outsider uses a toll-free to connect to the employee. 2) Message Interception: A user should intercept the message sent to another user including track your SIP No. & other information. 3) Enumerating: Sending direct random information to registrar servers to find information regarding other registered users. 4) DOS Attacks: Denial of service attacks using proxies including manipulated header info. 5) Virus/Worms: Last but not the least. Worms including Virus could be on the loose in VOIP space in future. So beware, its time to tighten the security including go extra step further to do our best to save ourself from such attacks. For home users, we could follow some simple guidelines to avid such attacks if not 100% they should still be effective. 1) If you are home VOIP user, don't obtain calls from anyone (stranger), Don't accept a call not from your contacts. Instead try to chat with him first before starting a call to verify his identity. 2) Use secure VOIP clients which should sit on top of your favorite VOIP clients. Zfone is 1 such application which should encrypt your call. 3) Update your antivirus software regularly. if you do it religiously, most pertaining to the virus & worms wont harm you. Hope the article helps you keep the hackers out.
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