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Economic Evaluation of Interactive Audio Media for Securing Internet Services

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Global Security, Safety and Sustainability & e-Democracy (e-Democracy 2011, ICGS3 2011)

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Internet Telephony (Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP) has recently become increasingly popular mainly due to its cost advantages and range of advance services. On the same time, SPam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) referred as unsolicited bulk calls sent via VoIP networks by botnets, is expected to become a serious threat in the near future. Audio CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart) mechanism were introduced and employed as a security measure to distinguish automated software agents from human beings. The scope of this paper is to present the security economics frame and to have an in-depth review of the related economic models of SPAM and its analogies with SPIT.

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  1. Dept. of Marketing, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Theodosios Tsiakis

  2. Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Panagiotis Katsaros

  3. Dept. of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

    Dimitris Gritzalis

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  1. Department of Applied Informatics, University of East London , 156 Egnatio Street, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Christos K. Georgiadis

  2. School of Architecture & Engineering, University of East London, Docklands Campus 4-6, University Way, E16 2RD, London, UK

    Hamid Jahankhani

  3. School of Architecture Computing & Engineering, University of East London, Docklands Campus 4-6 University Way, E16 2RD, London, UK

    Elias Pimenidis , Rabih Bashroush  & Ameer Al-Nemrat ,  & 

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Tsiakis, T., Katsaros, P., Gritzalis, D. (2012). Economic Evaluation of Interactive Audio Media for Securing Internet Services. In: Georgiadis, C.K., Jahankhani, H., Pimenidis, E., Bashroush, R., Al-Nemrat, A. (eds) Global Security, Safety and Sustainability & e-Democracy. e-Democracy ICGS3 2011 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33448-1_7

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