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> From: [email protected] [mailto:asterisk-users-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of CDR
> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Securing Asterisk
> 
> I beg to differ. Digium is hiding from the real world and somebody is going
> take the software and run with it. My customers lost in excess of $50.000 and
> cut my pay in half, because of hackers. The hackers figured out how to scan
> every asterisk for weak passwords or open ports, and bang them real good.
> We need two things: a) disable in sip.conf the reply for INVITES that have
> wrong user information, and also, b) disable any response to any REGISTER
> packet altogether. Can somebody please write  patch? Or should we go
> broke trying to stop the flood of criminals coming from abroad?
> Federico

We use fail2ban to prevent brute force password hacking.    We don't allow weak 
passwords.    This isn't rocket science.



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