The FreePBX team has been made aware of a security vulnerability affecting one of its modules called the Asterisk Recording Interface (ARI). While many of our users do not use this module on a day to day basis, it is almost available in all our … “FreePBX RCE vulnerability CVE: 2014-7235”

A bug discovered by Stephane Chazelas IMPORTANT – MUST READ: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, i am not responsible for any broken apps/programs etc etc. Don’t sue me, im not rich anyway. We do not know the extent of the vulnerability/fixes this is from best … “Bash vulnerability possible quick fix for Debian 6 and 7 (squeeze and wheezy) – "CVE-2014-6271" or more CVEs”

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NOTE: This post is for education purposes only. Spent some time trying to fix and after reading/following some resources online like youtube links and others, they still didn’t’ seem to work for me. Finally, found this regkey, changed one value and it worked for me. … “Fixing magnet links on Google Chrome (and re-associate with uTorrent or <insert.favourite.torrent.program.here>)”

I had the chance to install and use Monast (http://monast.sourceforge.net/) by Diego Aguirre and found it extremely useful, simple, fast and FREE to monitor Asterisk 1.4 or higher (this guide uses Asterisk 11.x). Thought i’d share this how to for basic asterisk monitoring needs. Even … “Monast – An uber cool FREE web based monitoring for Asterisk (an install guide for Debian users)”

Hi all, this is just a quick and dirty guide to get OPUS and VP8 running on Asterisk 11.9.0 on your Debian box. All credits for the Asterisk patch to meetecho and forked by netaskd for Asterisk 11.5.x or higher support. This guide is intended … “OPUS codec with transcoding on Asterisk 11.5.x (or higher, 11.6,11.7,11.8,11.9) with(out) FreePBX”

Have you ever wanted to do some crazy telephony stuff such as call a long distant number using your office PaBX, or call you back and bridge an open channel (so you can call anywhere) or do just about anything with your own Direct Inward … “The personal & secret telephone menu – with Asterisk/FreePBX”

 [img src http://www.getisymphony.com/]   Some introduction About iSymphony For years, i’ve been asked by Asterisk users in many corporations to have a web management page for our much loved Asterisk IPPBX, there has been near complete products out there and some does one thing and … “iSymphony – A super cool unified communications platform and user panel for Asterisk/FreePBX + Install guide for Debian/Asterisk/FreePBX”

Earlier today, an important security update and notice has been released to address a potentially dangerous vulnerability for remote code execution without proper authentication. Please take some time to update your systems or your clients’. Link to the article: http://www.freepbx.org/news/2014-02-06/security-vulnerability-notice Taken off the link for … “IMPORTANT: Security Vulnerability Notice for FreePBX 2.9 or higher systems”

Image source: www.itechfreak.com After analysing some logs we got, it was obvious that the calls that had been made were successful attempts in placing calls to expensive and exotic numbers, and the biggest one was Sierra Leone. one of the most common places these thieves … “A new kind of old phones hacking way”