Voip Gateways De-Mystified (Part 2)

Major hardware manufacturers who make networking solutions usually have them in their inventory. Software solutions are as the name suggests, software based and are way cheaper than hardware-based gateways. It works much like the trunk line which is divided by the phone system to your building into the several phones that are available locally within [...]

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Voip Gateways De-Mystified (Part 1)

Voip Gateways are an essential part of a Voip network, and they are simply appliances that convert all the voice and fax calls into digital packets that can then be transmitted in between the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and an IP network. Simply put, it is an interpreter that works so fast you [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip - DoS (Part 2)

The first form of attack is Dos which is short for Denial of Service which has the ability to overwhelm existing hardware leaving your system bogged down without any available link towards the outside world. This has occurred many times with the internet itself, when several Trojans and bot-nets have flooded servers and routers causing [...]

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Bullet-proofing Voip (Part 1)

There are 5 identified threats for VoIP technology that have been determined and verified by the IEEE and many industry experts for 2008. DoS Attacks, VoIP Eavesdropping, Microsoft Office Communications Service (MOCS), Vishing (phishing for VoIP) and VoIP attacks against Service providers. As we see, there are no shortages of problems with regards to security [...]

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VoIP Under threat (Part 2)

Problems can arise from recordings of VoIP calls which can be made into common audio formats then analyzed later for vital information leading to identity theft and fraud.As experts watched companies shift from the standard telephone to Voip, they noticed something very unusual, no reports of compromised systems. That strikes them as very peculiar for [...]

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VoIP Under threat (Part 1)

Voip has revolutionized the way businesses and customers interact saving in phone bills and using their computers connected through the internet for communications uses. It’s fast and easy, especially if the calls are for support which allows the actual scenario to be read out by the user to the support people for assistance. Like all [...]

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Jabbin’

One of the best of the open-sourced Voip software available on the market to date which has royalty free licenses. It allows the Jabber Client software over the Jabbin network to make free PC to PC calls along with SMS capability for cellular phones. Being open sourced, it has issues with reliability for it does [...]

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