Phone Power, LLC acquired VoIP.com
VoIP.com and Phone Power, LLC have merged. According to Phone Power, the two companies became one on October 1st, 2010.
On Friday, Phone Power sent out an email to current VoIP.com affiliates stating: Continue reading
Kamailio, formerly OpenSER, released version 3.1.0 on October 6th. Packed with some amazing features, the new version of Kamailio represents continued integration with the Sip Express Router (SER) software.
New features from 3.1 include:
G-g-g-g-g-g-google.
I love my Droid. That being said… my love for Google wanes like a loveless marriage from a white, suburban utopia. I’m comfortable with Google, but the love affair is over. Both of us want different things from our relationship.
I want Google to be a kinder, gentler corporation. The one that doesn’t scream M-M-M-Max Headroom and make me think that the next leader of Google, Inc. may indeed be named Darth Vader.
One of the products that I loved from Google was GooG411. Using it was simple. Continue reading
It’s great to be noticed… so today, we’re giving (in the style of Ali G) mad props and RESPECT to Tsahi Levent-Levi for mentioning VoIP Tech Chat in his article “My 50+ non-Top VoIP Blogs of 2010.” Sure it sucks to officially be a “non-top” VoIP Blog, but then again– who are we kidding here? We’ve got a freakin’ picture of Ben Affleck on our header.
You know, Levent-Levi’s 50+ non-Top blogs actually feature some of our must read blogs. We’re listed along with Michael Graves, Dave Michels, and even Jeff Pulver (all required reading).
Tsahi Levent-Levi is a seasoned product manager and system architect at RADVISION. His experience includes product management and development, project management, with a strong background in development and management of complex VoIP projects. Tsahi currently manages a wide range of VoIP and 3G client products, which enjoy significant market share in the industry.
Sometimes, you just get sick of looking at the same thing over and over again. Of course, the one exception to this is our wives. Of course. See honey?
Anyway, as we were saying… every now and then you just need to go ahead and make a change. After all, it was the greatest musical act of all time that told us:
When it’s time to change, then its time to change
Don’t fight the tide, come along for the ride, don’t you see
When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange
Yes, that group was The Brady Bunch. Peter, Greg, Marsha, Bobby, Cindy, and Jan were right. When it’s time to change you’ve got to rearrange.
Today, we rearranged our site. Nothing crazy. In fact the only really crazy aspect is the homage to Mr. Ben Affleck. If Ben Franklin is the patron saint of VoIP Tech Chat (and he is) then Mr. Ben Affleck is, well he’s just the baddest man in the whole town.
Thanks for reading.
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Got Rackspace? Got WordPress? If so… you may just have a problem.
We’ve been getting calls today from Rackspace clients (hosting WordPress sites) that have been compromised similarly to the GoDaddy hack a few weeks back. The Unmask Parasites Blog has an excellent article on the attack posted on their, well, their blog.
There are some huge sites that have been hit, and some not-so-large as well (we personally were hit by an earlier attack). In the “Is Cloud the answer” debates, this will surely become an example of how a compromise in the cloud, can devastate an entire farm.
Shortly after this article was initially posted, Rackspace via their Rackcloud Twitter account posted the following message: Continue reading
The VoIP Users Conference provides an open-to-all weekly conference call where anyone can engage in discussions related to, well, VoIP. Sometimes the conversations discuss new technologies / products. Sometimes discussions center around implementation. And lately, conversations may focus on security.
Last week, Ward Mundy, Tim Panton, Karl Fife, Leif Madsen, Yours Truly, and many other regulars discussed a SIP Caller ID Injection Hack. As in all conversations, opinions differ. My position about where to best filter this injection differed than Ward Mundy’s thoughts… and, courtesy of the VoIP Users Conference, you can listen to the conversation and form your own opinions.
Although, next time… maybe you’d enjoy actively participating in our conversations rather than listening to the replay. 
→ SIP Hacks: who should filter what, where? (VoIP Users Conference)
(The VoIP Users Conference provides weekly live discussion about VoIP, SIP, Asterisk and all kinds of telephony-related topics every Friday at 12pm EST. For more information, please visit http://vuc.me.)
Whoops. My bad.
LifeLock promises to “take control” of your identity — they just don’t tell you who gets to take control. Patrick and I chatted a while back about Todd Davis, the CEO of LifeLock, and how his ads promoting the ability of his company to protect identity, actually helped with the theft of his own. Back in 2007, a gentleman in Texas had used Davis’ identity to obtain a $500.00 without Davis’ knowledge. In fact, Davis only had learned about it after the unpaid loan was sold to a debt collection agency — but that’s old news.
Today, thanks to the Phoenix News Times, we learn that Davis had his identity stolen a grand total of 13 times. Or, at least 13 times that we know of.
With attention grabbing ads that published Davis’ Social Security Number, LifeLock caught the attention of many customers; as well as the FTC — who accused the company of running a scam operation and fined them $12 million dollars.
Attacks from the cloud.
Just over a month ago, we reported that SIP attacks from the Amazon EC2 cloud were on the rise. While the attacks we received last month were limited to “extension only” registration attempts, one of the attacks we received this morning included what we assume was a standard dictionary attack.
The first attack came from 204.236.245.101. In less than 60 seconds, this IP attempted more than 11,500 registrations against our server. Most of these were 4 digit extensions (download the log (zipped) here). The second attack came from 184.73.4.183. In less than 90 seconds, this IP attempted more than 21,000 registrations against our server; including what we think is a standard dictionary attack complete with root, postmaster, pixadmin, etc. (download the log (zipped) here).
I’ve said before that I’m a big (not a fat reference) fan of Michael Graves’ blog. Continuing his promotion of the wicked cool and useful†, Mr. Graves recently wrote about Schmooze Communications’ PBXact system.
It’s a GREAT read and I leave you with this: Magic Button. (read the article)
†Yes… Wicked cool and useful. If it doesn’t meet the criteria for both, it doesn’t make his blog.