Real numbers only, please. The House and Senate have now passed legislation prohibiting anyone from altering their Caller ID information in order to "defraud or deceive." ...

For years, we’ve used caller ID as an example of a “secure” identification, especially in comparison to the more “open” capabilities of IP and SMTP. For instance, it’s common knowledge that one may ...

Until recently, one of the giveaways for these scam calls was that they came from an unknown number – often from an international number that is immediately suspicious and gives people cause to ...

It’s not me mounting the defense, mind you. However, I thought it worth noting that a pair of recent columns — “Confessions of a Caller-ID spoofer” and “Caller-ID spoofing burns fire equipment company ...

K.C. Halm, John Nelson Jr. FCC proposes a $2 million fine against a carrier and a $6 million fine against a political consultant for caller ID spoofed robocalls using voice cloning technology that ...

A growing wave of caller ID spoofing attacks, in which criminals falsify the number displayed on a phone to appear legitimate, has prompted Europol to call for urgent, coordinated action across Europe ...

The threat is simple: with vendors offering web services to "spoof Caller-ID," the legitimacy of Caller-ID is destroyed. The Caller-ID topic has the lamp burning in our offices. During the next couple ...

He spoofed the HR director’s work phone number, then the number of that guy’s boss, before moving up to a vice president, and finally, the CEO. Says he had no choice. He also says, “This thing that I ...

In an effort to protect companies from phone call spoofing, AT&T and TransUnion announced a program Tuesday to allow businesses to tag outgoing calls so a brand name and logo will appear on the ...