Posts by daveinch

PBX phone system hacking nets crooks $50 million over four years

It's moved on a bit since 1996

1996 it would all been about dialling multiple numbers to find a Direct Dial that gave you dial tone again, or hacking a Voice Mail system allowing you to dial through a PBX.

These days hackers are looking for open 5060 ports to log a SIP endpoint on to your PBX or trying to find your SIP trunk login details to steal your trunks altogether!

Your taxes at work: Three hours driving to turn on politician's PC

Cake

I've had £50 worth of frozen gateaux after installing a companies new phones!

'Major' outage at Plusnet borks Brits' browsing, irate folk finger DNS

Earned me a free sandwich

at my local sandwich emporium this morning the lady behind the counter was small talking and asked what I did.

"I'm a telephone engineer"

So do you know about the Internet and that?

"A little bit"

I can't get on this morning, I get errors about DNS servers!

Your ISP DNS server must be down (Thompson Plusnet router sat beside the till with green lights for DSL and INTERNET)

"I can have a look if you want?"

Changed DNS servers to google and everything works fine.

She thinks I'm an IT God and I get a free BLT.

Other lady behind counter asks

"When I press @ I get : what could be the problem?"

I think I'm the tech support for the sandwich shop now :-/

Fondleslabs homing in on desktops in biz sales

I think the Leappad comment was a tad tongue in cheek.

The kids tablet things are pretty hard to get hold of at the minute!