Familiar phishing attacks have now evolved into phone scams. Secure Computing Corporation engineers have been tracking news group sites and open disclosure discussion groups that have been buzzing with talk about a new technique called "vishing." This new method exploits the low cost of VoIP and combines it with the social engineering aspects of phishing to extract financial information from unsuspecting credit card and banking customers. The scam is a telephone based version of phishing, hence the name vishing. Story continues