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RE: detecting wardialing


From: Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:24:56 -0600

The biggest issues with SandTrap is that it is not in-line with a PBX, therefore not able to detect wardialing calls as fast as they are being received. Protection against wardialing can be easily accomplished by creating a dial plan in the PBX and disallow any call that is not in the immediate dial plan, and decrease the number of calls a PBX is allowed to received in a given time period.

At 07:19 AM 10/17/2003, Matthew Brown wrote:


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I've never used this product, so I can't really say if it's good or
not. However, I have used Sandstorm's PhoneSweep war-dial software,
and it's a good product, so maybe Sandtrap is good too.

http://www.sandstorm.net/products/sandtrap/

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From: Zachary Mutrux [mailto:zmutrux () compumentor org]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:26 PM
To: Security-Basics
Subject: detecting wardialing


Is anyone aware of a PBX or software that can detect wardialing
attempts?
I'm thinking of something that detects fax or modem tones in a series
of
calls within a certain window of time. I understand the phone company
does
some detection of this kind of activity, but I'm wondering if there
is any
way to stop unwanted phone sweeps.

Zac

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Zac Mutrux
Technology Consultant
CompuMentor
415-633-9437



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