One client requested this as his entire office of 200 users use the Device User mode of FreePBX 2.11. This office is also a hybrid office use and call center of up to 20 agents. With this feature, users can dial a code and change … “FreePBX Device User Mode – “User” password change using touchtone keypad (or a feature code)”

Some may want to do this in case you use a HA setup and where DHCP is required to be in HA too. Doing it via heartbeat isn’t good as it doesn’t keep track of IPs already issued and can cause long delays in providing … “Setting up DHCP in a clustered (heartbeat) for Debian users”

Systems or apps that enabled SSLv3 is vulnerable and the only way currently is to disable SSLv3 in various software, applications. Whenever you see any cert that says Version V3, it is vulnerable and must be disabled until further notice.Ref: CVE-2014-3566 IMPORTANT USETHIS GUIDE AT … “POODLE SSLv3 Vulnerabilities Fixes on Debian/pfSense for common widely used apps”

Show some love,  do like our FB page www.fb.com/Astiostech | [UPDATED: 03 FEB 2015] Here’s a VMDK image to run a full featured Asterisk PaBX with FreePBX as the management UI using our default and secure install practices. No registrations, no username/password, no signing up … “Debian 7 (wheezy) based Asterisk 13, Freepbx 12 on VMware / Virtualbox (Asterisk VM/Asterisk Ready Virtual Machine)”

Thought of quickly setting a note on this. If you get this error with Windows 10 Tech Preview on Virtual Box, you probably have to set the in the General Setting to Windows 8.1 (32 or 64 bit depending on your version you’ve downloaded). Also … “Error 0x0000005d when installing Windows 10 tech preview on Oracle VirtualBox (4.3.x)”

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)”