Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5747813The past few weeks have been challenging for me on a number of fronts. As far as challenges related to this posting go, I managed to drop my personal...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Vitaliy PakhnyushchyyIt's funny, we hear a lot about free calls on different services. While that's great for the end user, those free calls cost someone and...

© anomalous4I remember when I went through buying and selling real estate last year. Lots and lots of faxing. I tried desperately to use Voice over IP solutions to send faxes. For the most part, they...

My friend Alec Saunders is having a call at 11am Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) related to phishing-hackers setting up legitimate-sounding or looking sites upon which to capture your private...

Phil Wolff at Skype Journal points out a rather amusing fact: in order for authorities to snoop on Skype calls, spyware has to be installed on the Skype PC. The scary thing? There's a legitimate...

In theory, a terrorist in another country could make call through a VoIP provider here in the U.S.. If this were to happen and the government wanted to "spy" on the terrorist's...

This mass hysteria about being able to make WAV files of VoIP conversations, while only recently brought into the forefront with a tool called SIPtap, is completely unwarranted. In short: if someone...

Sipera Systems, a company that provides VoIP security solutions, has released a series of 4 security advisories related to the security of the beleaguered Vonage. Three of the four vulnerabilities are...

"Bricking" a piece of electronics like a router or mobile phone is what happens when, usually through a firmware load, the device becomes inoperable. It's fairly common among people whom...

Phil Britt at Information Week provides us with six reasons you might want to avoid VoIP. I personally don't think any of the issues he raises are showstoppers, but they are things you have to...

About a month ago, I had a phone conversation with David Beckemeyer regarding Ooma and how they co-opt your local phone service. The way Ooma operates could be construed as Toll Fraud, or at the very...

Many people don't read through the end user license agreements (EULA) that come with, well, just about anything. Including VoIP service. Mostly, they get ignored and clicked-through. Lucky for...

With apologies to Steely Dan, the danger of losing that number you got through your VoIP provider-or worse: ported to your VoIP provider from somewhere else-is very real, as Andy Abramson points out....

A number of VoIP pyramid schemes have been operating in US for a number of years and scores of gullible people have been falling for it. Under this scheme false promises are made regarding earning...

How secure is VoIP and you will get different replies for this question but still VoIP has been thriving. Recently you might have heard incidents of VoIP minutes being stolen. This is probably one of...

You cannot avoid spam, try blocking one avenue for them and they will find another means for pestering you. Over the years we have got used to e-mail spam sitting coolly in our inbox but now get...

With VoIP hacking gaining ground here is a book titled Hacking Exposed VoIP which offers you tools and tricks to thwart an attack on VoIP systems. The book has been co-authored by David Endler,...

Up till now phishing was troubling e-mail but now it has moved beyond this domain and is attacking VoIP and SMS and here it has got the name of Vishing. What makes VoIP an attractive and easy target...

You must have started using Google's Click-to-Call service but beware as Lauren states that this service could be misused. Since a phone number has to be provided in order to connect the calls...