NEC maps Turing test for SPITers

It sometimes feels like data security is on everyone's list of New Year's resolutions, even though it's one of those things--like eating right--that needs year-round attention. Word's out that NEC has developed technology that can help knock out SPIT, or "Spam over Internet Telephony"  by challenging calls to discover whether the caller is human or a machine. The problem is acute: By one estimate, there are some 150 million computers on the Internet that can be used as "zombies" from which to launch attacks. The nature of the challenge is unclear; there already are solutions that ask callers to enter a three-digit code before putting the call through, a task that a spambot would not be able to perform. NEC will be showing the technology, which does has not been productized and does not have a commercial availability date, for the first time next month at 3GSM in Barcelona.

For more information about NEC's anti-spam technology:
- read this article from PC Advisor

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