[asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Steve Murphy
Hey, I'm going thru logs, and I see some very common and interesting things that the hackers are looking for. In a whole bunch of scans, I've noticed that the first guess or two for sip accounts is usually a 10-digit number. I'm asking myself, why these numbers? Are they looking for a voip trunk?

Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Dan Journo
Here's some examples: 2648061411 3190339404 I'm getting exactly the same. Odds of getting a working number, are like the odds of winning the lottery. My guess is they are either trying to find a voip trunk, or they are trying to make cold calls to the extensions on my system. Sales or

Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Cary Fitch
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Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Cary Fitch
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Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread sean darcy
List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these? Here's some examples: 2648061411 3190339404 I'm getting exactly the same. Odds of getting a working number, are like the odds of winning the lottery. My guess is they are either trying

Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Barry Miller
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 07:11:43AM -0700, Steve Murphy wrote: Hey, I'm going thru logs, and I see some very common and interesting things that the hackers are looking for. In a whole bunch of scans, I've noticed that the first guess or two for sip accounts is usually a 10-digit number. I'm

Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Cary Fitch
I've just switched my outbound ip address a week ago. Not static, but dhcp on TimeWarner cable. I've registered only with another of our offices. The outbound calls are all pstn bound through Teliax. But somehow my log is filling up with registration requests over this new ip address from a

Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread Cary Fitch
Adding on more thoughts: Think what Google has done in Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Web, and now working on Google Voice and Google Mail. Every one of those makes money either directly and/or synergistically with other components. Now consider someone with telephone interests or spam

Re: [asterisk-users] Why are the hackers scanning for these?

2010-11-07 Thread sean darcy
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Cary Fitch ca...@usawide.net wrote: Adding on more thoughts: Think what Google has done in Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Web, and now working on Google Voice and Google Mail. Every one of those makes money either directly and/or synergistically with other