Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-18 Thread SIP
On 10/14/10 9:10 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Hi, Embarrassed as I am to write this, I am hoping for some advice. One of our very first PBX installs, now six years old, was taken advantage of over the past few weeks. A victim of sipvicious, I assume, that managed to guess one of the SIP

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice (Also advice on using ipbanning)

2010-10-17 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
- Original Message - When we designed our systems on asterisk we designed it to me multi-tenant. Se we use customer prefixes on all extensions. This allows us to have multiple customers using the same extension pools. It also reduces the hack foot print as hackers must know the

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice (Also advice on using ipbanning)

2010-10-16 Thread Bryant Zimmerman
...@totarotechnologies.com Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 11:22 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, bruce bruce

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Edwards
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, bruce bruce wrote: But it also sickens me at how badly Asterisk is made to not cope with situations like this and worse than that is FreePBX. Kind of like blaming the gun manufacturer instead of the criminal with their finger on the trigger? Is there some gaping hole in

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
For future I would highly recommend to have at least fail2ban installed. This way sipvicous IPs will be blocked instantly before they could create any damage. Also I prefer to limit International calling to only certain limit, e.g. only for $10 per account, but this depends upon how your business

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Totaro
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, bruce bruce wrote: But it also sickens me at how badly Asterisk is made to not cope with situations like this and worse than that is FreePBX. Kind of like blaming the gun manufacturer

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-15 Thread Matt Desbiens
We took a pretty nasty hit one time, a system administrator didnt listen to us about changing the passwords. Luckily they took part of the blame in that, and we split the 1800$ it cost us in half. We could have changed them, and she didnt change them, so we were both at fault. Like said

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Totaro
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: snipped (BTW Sierra Leone is in West Africa, not the Middle East.) True ;)  Most of the calls were Iraq, UAE, Lebanon... Found another one today that was 2.5 DAYS long to Chile.  Bizarre. j Not bizarre at all.

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-15 Thread Carlos Chavez
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 07:29 -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, bruce bruce wrote: But it also sickens me at how badly Asterisk is made to not cope with situations like this and worse than that is FreePBX. Kind of like blaming the gun manufacturer instead of the criminal

[asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, Embarrassed as I am to write this, I am hoping for some advice. One of our very first PBX installs, now six years old, was taken advantage of over the past few weeks. A victim of sipvicious, I assume, that managed to guess one of the SIP passwords. 4000 calls to various middle eastern

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-14 Thread Cary Fitch
and save your bacon. Cary Fitch -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:11 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] fraud

Re: [asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-14 Thread bruce bruce
Jeff, I suggest talking to your PSTN/VoIP provider. We had a large amount going through TATA communications and have not accepted their word for payment because they had a duty to not allow traffic if our credit went down to $1k while the calls charged were actually more than that.