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Every now and then a weakness becomes exploited in a manner that deserves recognition. A 41 year unemployed systems admin from Moscow did just this — he exploited a weakness in a video billboard and rigged it to play a pornographic movie. A traffic jam followed as Moscow drivers slowed to watch. The man was arrested, any negatives in his history brought to light, and then all video billboards in the Moscow area were banned.

Here’s the article, from The Moscow Times: Read the rest of this entry »

Leif Madsen explains things in a manner that makes concepts easy to understand — which is probably one of the reasons we like Leif. If you’ve read Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, then you most likely already appreciate his talent; he is of course one of the authors.

Anyway, Leif posted a great article on his “Asterisk, and other worldly endeavours” blog today regarding ENUMplus and ISNs. Check the article on his blog: Musings about ENUMplus and ISNs.

The Asterisk team of Digium announced new versions of Asterisk in reference to a potential security issue. The release highlights best practices and hopes to raise awareness of some potential security issues and injection statments. The announcement follows:

The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for the following
versions of Asterisk: Read the rest of this entry »

Smart's phone

Between Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, and the new Microsoft Windows smart-phones, Blackberry certainly understands that market domination may be nothing short of a historical footnote. As of December 2009, RIM maintained a large share of the smartphone market. With competition coming from some very large names, Blackberry had to strike both hard and fast. First strike? The wallet.

Blackberry Enterprise Server Express Edition

RIM recently introduced a free version of the “popular” Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) software — the Express Edition.  Additionally, RIM promises that there will be no additional user license fees for using this software. In the past, after spending $3k on the Blackberry server software, you would then purchase client usage licenses at $55 – $100 per license (depending on how many you bought). These costs added consideration for many people to avoid the Blackberry system whatsoever. Although an enterprise may not hesitate to spend more than $25k on user licenses, a small to medium sized business would much rather use a smart-phone with imap capabilities than worry about such an expensive integration. Read the rest of this entry »