[img src http://www.getisymphony.com/]   Some introduction About iSymphony For years, i’ve been asked by Asterisk users in many corporations to have a web management page for our much loved Asterisk IPPBX, there has been near complete products out there and some does one thing and … “iSymphony – A super cool unified communications platform and user panel for Asterisk/FreePBX + Install guide for Debian/Asterisk/FreePBX”

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Earlier today, an important security update and notice has been released to address a potentially dangerous vulnerability for remote code execution without proper authentication. Please take some time to update your systems or your clients’. Link to the article: http://www.freepbx.org/news/2014-02-06/security-vulnerability-notice Taken off the link for … “IMPORTANT: Security Vulnerability Notice for FreePBX 2.9 or higher systems”

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Image source: www.itechfreak.com After analysing some logs we got, it was obvious that the calls that had been made were successful attempts in placing calls to expensive and exotic numbers, and the biggest one was Sierra Leone. one of the most common places these thieves … “A new kind of old phones hacking way”

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Firstly, FreePBX’s PRO module does this in such elegance http://www.schmoozecom.com/pinsetpro.php. Do support the FreePBX team and make the purchase and keep those devs motivated :-). Thank you for helping!   This article describes step by step to do a poor man’s PINSET per user/extension in … “FreePBX/Asterisk – Per User Pin Set for the poor man”

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Images taken off various sources on the internet [UPDATE 15-10-2013] This guide was taken off various sources but it all started from the Nerd Vittles’s forum entry here and various other wonderful resources such as FS-Wiki. I do not claim any rights/credits to this. It’s … “Debian 6 Squeeze(32/64) – Asterisk 11, FreeSWITCH living under one root(f) to make SKYPE free again!”

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image source: www.thegeekstuff.com   Asterisk 11 introduced the security log event channel which basically throws all security (success, failure, etc) which the past full log couldn’t show. Scripts attacks like sipvicious that does scanning on your system or even tries to bombard your system with … “Upgrade to Asterisk 11 and fail2ban 0.8.8 to protect Asterisk like never before, here’s why and how.”

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Image source: www.dictronics.com Asterisk has a function to run a program after voicemail changes happen. The changes in voicemail could include Received new voicemail Read new voicemail Moved voicemail to different folders Cleared voicemails ..etc This is especially useful if you wish to integrate Asterisk … “Asterisk/FreePBX – Post voicemail trigger (e.g. send sms after new voicemail)”

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Image source: mommasaid.net Office 2013 is one of the greatest office releases from Microsoft. But somehow, they tried to shove Skydrive down your throat by enabling it right on top of all options when saving files. This is fine for those using the MS Cloud … “Office 2013 – Disable SKYDRIVE save option when you do a SAVE or SAVE AS”

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(image courtesy of www.unlock.my) Introduction We had a couple of clients requested this function of on the fly locking and unlocking functionalities independent of the phone manufacturer. This means also web phones, softphones and mobile softphones and what not. There are so many unmaintained hacks … “FreePBX 2.10 or 2.11 & Asterisk dynamic phone locking application”

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Hello all, got a confirmation from Nicolas on Asternic and FreePBX 2.11 and as suspected, its no longer needed to apply the post recording patch called update_mix_monitor.pl anymore. FreePBX 2.11 has already a place to add a post-recording script (which is what the patch from … “FreePBX 2.11 and Asternic mp3/database conversion/update post recording script”

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