It put 19 internet-calling companies on notice that helping illegal robocalls is illegal. It has sued before, and it can do it again.
Tag Archives: VoIP
Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day
According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.
Phone cloner gets 65 months in jail
A US court has sentenced a man to over five years for his part in a massive telecommunications fraud involving stolen cellphone accounts and reprogrammed phones.
Change your password! VoIP provider leaves huge database exposed online
A researcher has discovered an exposed database containing gigabytes of call logs, SMS data, and internal system credentials belonging to US Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo.com.
El Chapo was brought down by a sysadmin
Christian Rodriguez says he set up secure VoIP communications for the cartel: a system whose encryption keys he wound up giving to the FBI.
No Android passcode? No problem! Skype unlocked it for you
Microsoft closed the hole, which let any unauthenticated phone-grabber answer a Skype call and then roam around on your mobile.
Kingpin who made 100 million robocalls loses his voice
The man behind a cacophony of robocalls had little to say for himself on Capitol Hill
Is your phone line a ‘6-figure liability waiting to happen’?
Premium-rate service scams are sticking businesses – particularly small ones using local carriers – with outrageous phone bills, to the tune of $4.73 billion globally for 2013. Many businesses aren’t even aware that they can be stuck paying the bill (or fighting it in court). 