[ale] IP-PBX SIP attacks from Amazon EC2 cloud- Re: Linux at BerkeleyTIP-Global meeting...

[giovanni_re]

Thanks for the info, Paul. :)  I'll forward this to the BTIP mailing list too.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:13:01 -0400, "Paul Cartwright" <ale at pcartwright.com> said:
> On Sun April 18 2010, giovanni_re wrote:
> > Come discuss Linux via VOIP. :)
> > http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/voice-voip-conferencing
> >
> > Hot topics: Ubuntu 10.04, Free Culuture, VOIP, Set up the web server &
> > mail list & asterisk/freeswitch on the BTIP box with Ubuntu 10.04?
> >
> > Tues April 27 5-6P VOIP online meeting also.
> >
> > http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
> 
> and as soon as I read this email, I also read this on Slashdot :
> mjgraves writes "Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been 
> suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. At least a
> dozen 
> known attacks have been reported to Amazon, which has been surprisingly
> quiet 
> about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the attack 
> victims on his blog. The matter was also discussed on the April 16th
> issue of 
> the VoIP Users Conference (podcast available at the link; EC2 segment
> begins 
> around 3:30). Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as
> the 
> attacks are ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a
> such a 
> hosting company, which should be acting to take down the attacker in
> their 
> midst."
> 
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_P3HLJtFFr4/SIP-Attacks-From-Amazon-EC2-Going-Unaddressed
> 
> 
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