As we alluded to last month, new forms of Internet communications beget new forms of spam, and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is no exception to the rule.

Where it had already been predicted that VoIP spam, affectionaly referred to as “SPIT” (SPam over Internet Telephony) was just around the corner, that prediction has now been fleshed out with some graphic examples.

In an excellent article at BizJournals, Eric Lai interviews VoIP experts Kevin Kealy, of AT&T Labs, and Gilbert Hu, of AltiGen Systems, and their descriptions of the SPIT to which we can look forward read very much more like your telephone line being hijacked than like the traditional print spam which we are used to.

Examples of the sort of VoIP spam and other shenanigans we can look forward to include hackers taking control of your… [Continued...]