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I was under the impression that the term was derived from the V in VOIP, and that the article was correct when it previously stated that vishing attacks were only properly labeled as such when VOIP technology was used by the attacker. Simply stating that similar attacks are possible over POTS doesn't make it true that all such attacks are "vishing." Rv'd, but won't rv again if a real explanation is given, preferably with a source to back up the broadening of the definition. MrZaius talk 02:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
The 'V' in "Vishing" almost certainly originally stood for VoIP. Mass phishing operations could be run at very little cost due to the low cost of making thousands of VoIP calls, without dedicated hardware and at a higher level of anonymity compared to an operation using POTS. It would be fair however, to now consider any "Voice Phishing" (VoIP or otherwise) as "vishing" and whilst it may be a terrible name, it probably should be referenced on this Wikipedia entry at least once. Recent source that used "Vishing" to refer to VoIP Phishing: http://blog.phishlabs.com/vishing-campaign-steals-card-data-from-customers-of-dozens-of-banks (which was linked to by Cisco @ http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewCrr.x?alertId=34114)....But it's much easier to find sources that refer to "Vishing" as voice phishing. LlamaLlamaLamp ( talk) 16:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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I was under the impression that the term was derived from the V in VOIP, and that the article was correct when it previously stated that vishing attacks were only properly labeled as such when VOIP technology was used by the attacker. Simply stating that similar attacks are possible over POTS doesn't make it true that all such attacks are "vishing." Rv'd, but won't rv again if a real explanation is given, preferably with a source to back up the broadening of the definition. MrZaius talk 02:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
The 'V' in "Vishing" almost certainly originally stood for VoIP. Mass phishing operations could be run at very little cost due to the low cost of making thousands of VoIP calls, without dedicated hardware and at a higher level of anonymity compared to an operation using POTS. It would be fair however, to now consider any "Voice Phishing" (VoIP or otherwise) as "vishing" and whilst it may be a terrible name, it probably should be referenced on this Wikipedia entry at least once. Recent source that used "Vishing" to refer to VoIP Phishing: http://blog.phishlabs.com/vishing-campaign-steals-card-data-from-customers-of-dozens-of-banks (which was linked to by Cisco @ http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewCrr.x?alertId=34114)....But it's much easier to find sources that refer to "Vishing" as voice phishing. LlamaLlamaLamp ( talk) 16:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)