VoIP Security Toll Fraud Issue Reported at Astricon

Here is a link to a short video from the recent Astricon Asterisk conference, where a $400,000 toll fraud attack was discussed. The basic idea is that the hackers break into the Asterisk voice mail system and use it to make toll calls. Here is the link:

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/astricon-voip-security---400000-fraud---yikes.asp

Comments

[jason @ voip]

I must start reading these headlines properly. I thought that TOLL said TROLL.

Mind you, I keep reading OUTAGE as OUTRAGE!

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[Eric Klein]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for sharing this clip. Nir and I were quite surprised when it was posted as we had been told that the session was not being recorded. Turns out Tom had an iPhone and well you can see the results.

This video was from Part 1 of the Astricon Security Roundtable. Part 2 was fully recorded and should be posted on the conference archive soon.

In that session, among other examples, we had someone give an example of an end-user that rest the PBX password to the default setting and plugged into the public internet.

It took under 11 min. for his PBX to be found and hacked.

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