Man Sentenced to 7 Years for Long Distance Abuse Attack

Here is a link to an article about a man who was sentenced to 7 years, for installing software on PCs and using modems to dial premium rate numbers. Apparently this went on for a long time and generated millions of revenue for the attacker. This is a form of toll fraud/long distance abuse, that could probably go on unnoticed in many enterprises, as long as the attacker didn't get too greedy/generate too many calls.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/221108/man_gets_7_years_for_forcing_modems_to_call_premium_numbers.html

This certainly highlights the need for voice firewalls on connections to the public voice network.