Archive for the 'VoIP' Category

Do you twitter? Into VoIP? A few guys you might want to follow

I was inspired by a post from Luca Filigheddu, a perennial VoIP commentator who always has something to say, who posted about his list of top 30 VoIP thought leaders who used twitter and their twitter accounts. My list is much smaller, but contains a few people I thought deserved to be on the list [...]

VoIP on iPhone! – this one is cool.

How many times have you waited at your desk for an important phone call? Or made a mad dash across the office when you heard your desktop phone ringing? Would you like to be able to receive calls to your business number when you’re away from the office, without having to lug around your laptop [...]

VoIP Security – Dan York, The Black Bag Security Review

Dan York gives a great Podcast (delivered here in a powerpoint presentation) about VoIP Security. It is an enjoyable anecdotal talk, where he sets up a story and tells the pitfalls that can begall an unsuspecting ’sysadmin steve’ who inherits a VoIP system. Really, the intent here is that there are a number of potential [...]

Basic VoIP security threat tutorial, ARP poisoning

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A very basic tutorial from techcentric.org on how to STOP VoIP security threats , CAIN, ARP and MITM attacks. Explains that an ARP Poisoning attack is a man in the middle attack (intercepting data in this case VoIP packets).
They recommend that you use SKYPE instead of SIP to avoid man in the middle attacks; [...]

VoIP Security Threats – Video, Peter Cox

Peter Cox(?) a security consultant specializing in VoIP security has a great Podcast primer on VoIP security examples. He states that there are really three categories of VoIP Security Threats:

IP level Threats – shared with the web and email and others, common knowledge to many people already
Protocol and application specific threats, based on the way [...]

VOIP Service Providers

NOTE – this article is now dated. I will updated it soon.
If you want to switch over to VoIP instead of PSTN all you need to do is choose a VoIP service provider. Most of these providers are situated in the United States. Some VoIP service providers are: Vonage, BroadVoice, iConnectHere and Lingo.
For a monthly fee [...]