How Not to Configure Asterisk

This must be blogged - all I can say is “Holy Shit!”
An Asterisk box I had set up for a client with ~ 10 extensions was compromised this morning at about 12 AM… and they really did a number on it.  I apologize if you were a victim of this attack however there was really [...]

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Screw your Mobile Carrier - Part 2

Last night while reading through some interesting articles at nerdvittles.com I stumbled upon a wicked little Asterisk PHPAGI script for web initialized inbound calling with Callback and DISA.
I added a form to the code because it was basic and only accepted phone numbers from the GET  string however it pretty much works perfectly out of [...]

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Getting Creative with Hold Music

A while back I wanted to configure my PBX to tell me which menu item was selected in my IVR before I answered, so I knew how to greet the caller. So I set up queues on my asterisk system and realized that people were forced to listen to hold music instead of ringing.
Recently one [...]

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