VoIP Tech Chat

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.)

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 »