Re: Scam telemarketers spoofing our NOC phone number for callerid

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dan White <dwhite () olp net> wrote:
> If your PBX is SIP based, you might be victim of a SIP registration hijack,
> which are on the rise, based on traffic we've been seeing in our network.

I had my unpublished asterisk box up for all of two days before
getting half a megabit per second worth of false SIP registration
attempts. Filled /var/log. I had to write a script to dynamically
filter source IPs with too many failures.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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