Posts by smipx

DDoSers take weekend off only to resume campaign against UK's Voipfone on Monday

Re: this is what happens when you dont enforce authentication

Apparently this is what they should be doing: https://blog.cloudflare.com/update-on-voip-attacks/

Thanks for bringing this to the attention of the wider public. It seems that Voipfone did not put in place robust enough plans to stop a repeat performance of the outages a few weeks back. Maybe now they will invest more to harden their systems.

In this day and age more of us are coming to rely on VOIP services and this kind of outage (and this type of technology) surely needs better regulation to compel the smaller players (like Voipfone) from under cutting the bigger players at the expense of a properly robust intrastructure.

Many small businesses rely on their services and take out contracts with them not really understanding the fragility of their services and not really understanding that they are not properly protected by regulation (e.g. Ofcom). If they did know then they might not chase the lowest prices for their calls but instead look for reliability at a fair price.

It's not like Voipfone are even that cheap anymore. They charge £3.60 per number and then an eye watering amount to call mobiles from the VOIP service (7p/min). I get the impression (from my dealings with them) that they are a bit of a smoke and mirrors business - pretending to be a big player when they are really held together with bits of string!