Qovia, a company specialising in Internet telephony products, has unveiled a new product in anticipation of an hitherto unknown annoyance - VoIP spam.
Because voice over Internet protocol uses technology similar to email, it's vulnerable to the many of the same abuses, such as spam. To avoid overloading corporate mailboxes with junk voice mail, Qovia's technology would scan incoming traffic at the voice server, blocking spam before the calls are directed to recipients in the corporate network.
The patent-pending technology includes algorithms that look for call characteristics that would indicate spam, company officials said. For example, many calls coming at once from the same source would be an indicator, along with multiple calls of the same time duration.
Because VoIP spam doesn't exist, Qovia's technology has yet to be tested in the real world.
There must be a few boy-scouts in their ranks :P Techweb has this story.
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