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Acme Packet On Session Border Controllers
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Friday June 18th we will be extending our recent trend in discussing matters of VoIP security. This call will feature Ken Kuenzel from Acme Packet. Acme Packet are the leading provider of “Session Border Controllers,” aka SBCs.
What’s an SBC? What does it do? So glad you asked…as that’s just what we aim to find out on Friday! Acme has uploaded a slide presentation to follow while listening.
In the mean time, and for the very curious among you, Acme Packet has some great background on the topic amongst their online articles and presentations.
Yes, there’s homework!
Acme products: session border controllers (SBC), session-aware load balancers (SLB), multiservice security gateways (MSG) and session routing proxies (SRP)—operate Acme Packet Net-Net OS.
SIP Hacks: who should filter what, where?
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP
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Among others, Ward Mundy (Nerd Vittles, our guest next week) and many of the VUC regulars join in this violent argument civil discussion about who is responsible for filtering, where it should take place and the how and why of their ideas on the subject.
If you’re into SIP technology, you’ll want to hear this discussion about who should protect people from SIP “CallerID stuffing” among Ward Mundy, Fred Posner (VoIP Tech Chat), Tim Panton, Karl Fife, Leif Madsen and the rest of the great gang of VoIP regulars. This is why you need to join us LIVE every Friday!
Programmers differ enormously over who should filter incoming data and where. There is no right answer, although the main point is to protect your users against whatever possible attacks might come through your system or pbx.
Dan York’s 7 Deadliest UC Attacks
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in Books, VoIP
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Dan York’s name is certainly familiar to you if you’re a fan of VoIP. He has made a video to explain why he wrote this book. Dan’s credentials are strong and he’s an active community member. You’ve seen him in airports between conferences, or even at one of those Voxeo events.
Dan’s blog (perhaps we should say one of his many blogs) is Disruptive Telephony. Dan can be found on Twitter as @DanYork and he’s on Linkedin, Facebook, etc. Finding those links is left as an exercise for the enthusiastic student.
While I’m not sure what his current role there is, Dan is a part of another effort you should know about, the VoIP Security Alliance aka VOIPSA where he writes on the VOIPSA blog.
Amazon Indifference to EC2 Attacks Continues
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in The Rest, VoIP
EC2 attacks continue with no help from them. Amazon continues its “head in the sand” approach to our community and this is unacceptable. Forgive the intrusion on this page, look below for the VUC sessions.
You can help push this to their attention:
Please make sure you keep this issue visible by voting it up on SlashDot. If you haven’t followed out discussions, see Fred’s story. Asterisk user mailing list has a lot of info on it as well. Post on Twitter, their robot stupidly repeats all comments that contain EC2 so don’t forget to use that mention in anything you post. Post on your blogs and any forums you can.
I expected better from Amazon and I’ll withdraw my significant business from them if they don’t rise up to the challenge.
Beginning OpenVPN 2.0.9
Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in Books, VoIP
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Two copies of this book to give away today
On the other hand, the complexity of classic VPN solutions, especially IPsec, gives the impression that VPN technology in general is difficult and a topic only for very experienced (network and security) specialists. OpenVPN proves that this can be different, and this book aims to document that.
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Links mentioned in IRC Feb 5, 2010
[6:19pm] NerdUno: Here are some good OpenVPN tutorials: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4856 [6:21pm] steely_glint: ecrist - http://www.phonefromhere.com/vuc/ [6:31pm] ecrist: Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea: http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html [6:32pm] kfife: http://www.packtpub.com/openvpn/book [6:34pm] Zeeek: http://www.linux4afrika.de/vision.html?L=0 [6:40pm] mfeilner: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2009/99/SAFE-CALL [6:41pm] mfeilner: http://www.feilner-it.net [6:42pm] mfeilner: http://www.openvpn.eu [6:43pm] mfeilner: http://www.openvpn.eu/index.php?id=23&L=0 [7:39pm] Skibum: BTW more info on Bria 3 is available at: http://www.counterpath.com/bria.html [8:00pm] mjgraves: http://gigaset.com/chagall/provider/general/chagall223_02.bin [8:21pm] JimCifarelli: http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=408
Part 2: Bria Tests and more

