Hi, VoIP Tech Chat here introducing a BRAND NEW download from Digium, the company bringing you Asterisk. Are your Skype calls limiting you to sitting in front of your computer? Do you ever forget to plug in your microphone and lose audio? Well, Digium has the perfect product for you!
Skype for Asterisk Beta is a download that lets you integrate your Asterisk system with the Skype network.
With Skype for Asterisk, you can: Continue reading
Note: You can play or download the MP3 audio of the “Telemarketer Torture” calls towards the end of the article.
When I first started working with VoIP, I began to hate telephony, and any and all things telephone related. This bothered me on many levels. You see, as a kid, I loved telephones. Growing up in the “big city,” pay phones seemed to be on every corner. Family stories talk about walking several blocks extra, just to avoid me seeing and wanting to play with a phone. But, as usual, I digress…
When I worked with an unnamed switch (let’s just say it rhymed with Broadmoft), I hated working with VoIP. I knew there had to be a better way and started playing with Asterisk. Soon, my memories of playing with phones started coming back and my love rekindled. Now, I look forward to working with phone systems, only because I truly feel that the use of a phone can only be limited by your imagination. And with companies like Twilio, Adhearsion, and Digium, the community of telephone developers seems only to grow.
With that long winded introduction, let’s discuss today’s topic — telemarketer torture. Continue reading
Firefox has released version 3.5.1 to address a security flaw announced earlier this week. For more information, please read the post at Team Forrest.
How's the view up there?
Cloud Computing, the buzz phrase that won’t go away, attracts new users daily. The most common “cloud” approach uses resources, accessible through the public internet, as a service. Although this computing approach provides (generally) much higher rates of reliability and lower rollout cost, an organization looking to the cloud may find some grey skies on the security forecast.
Besides unknown physical access concerns to your data (as well as not truly knowing who can access your “system”), the main security risk resides with the end user. Take for example Twitter. For the third time this year, someone accessed sensitive corporate documents via an employee email account. If a password can be guessed, cracked, or obtained, chances are your security just became a little foggy (ok, no more cloud puns).
Storing sensitive information in the cloud (including your web accessible email accounts) seems to be the 2009 equivalent of leaving your briefcase on the front seat of your car parked in a very open driveway. The AP recently posted an article on the Twitter reference, and it’s not a bad read. Continue reading
Our sponsor, Team Forrest, is reporting a serious security flaw in Firefox 3.5. The Zero-day exploit allows malicious javascript code to take control of a end-user.
For more information, please read the post at Team Forrest.