ALERT The $4263.84 Phone Bill

[wardmundy]

Yeah, 40 years ago I remember we had a hack for getting free phone calls from pay phones. But that was just for fun ... now its for money. Probably about 15 years ago I got hacked by an open backdoor with FreePBX that cost me about $500 each hack and happened a few times before we got the door completely closed. Thank God it was a time when international calling was best achieved by buying international minutes overseas that required a wire transfer, so no auto-refills that allowed the damage to be minimized.

Some mitigation techniques are as simple as changing the ports. Do you use port 5060? Do you use port 22? ... Easy things to put another barrier in front.

Sometimes, you just don't know where to look. I remember in college we had a pay phone on the dorm floor of our fraternity house. The line for the phone actually ran through the closet of one of the rooms. So a co-conspirator and I came up with a scheme of loading up the phone with quarters, hanging up the phone, and disconnecting the line in the adjoining room. This kept Ma Bell from sending a signal to the phone to return the deposited money. While the other brother hung out in his closet, I would lure unsuspecting pledges to bet me a dollar that I couldn't make the phone rain down money by clapping my hands. After we got the dollar bets in the hands of another brother (on commission), I would count to three and clap my hands. Then the brother in the closet would reconnect the line and the quarters showered out of the phone like magic. We had all sorts of reasons why we couldn't repeat the stunt but once a day. We got away with it for weeks... until my closeted co-conspirator laughed too loudly one day. So, as you can tell, I've been in the "phone business" a very long time.

 

[Gukweto22]

If only he had deployed Incredible PBX instead of you-know-who's free PBX...

Someone got into my system

Helo, Someone broke into my freepbx phone system soemhow they guessed my 16 digit password. I do have ports open for when I’m traveling. They are all coming from the same 128 Ip address. Is there a way to fix this so when I travel I can still use my phone extension that I’m using my cellphone...

community.freepbx.org

And the guy is still using the same system that got hacked. Yikes!

Hi Ward Im using FreePBX 15.0.16.78 from Sangoma.. I just want to know if Travelin Man works on my FreePBX?

 

[wardmundy]

Hi Ward Im using FreePBX 15.0.16.78 from Sangoma.. I just want to know if Travelin Man works on my FreePBX?

Probably not. Sorry.

 

[Gukweto22]

Probably not. Sorry.

Thanks for your swift reply im thinking switching to IncrediblePBX but my concern is i have series of extensions that need to use different outbound trunk.. My PBX has commercial module called Extension Routing in not sure if IncrediblePBX has one if none any alternative i can use?

 

[DoubleDriveLine]

Yes you can.

It is not a commercial module and takes a little extra thought but works fine using trunks and outbound routes.

The rest of the answer is for another thread as to not hijack this one.