Posted on Thursday, 16th December 2010 by Michael
How to root the Droid version 2.3 code Tonight I got an OTA (over the air update) from code 2.1 to 2.3 and wouldn’t you know it broke my existing root. You would figure since rooting is now legal they would not touch files that don’t belong to them or change your security settings but [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 2nd November 2010 by Michael
Google Voice and Whistle Phone for free calls and a local DID on any SIP device With the latest round of rotating passwords from Magic Jack and no end in sight many are looking for other alternatives. I for one have started my own VoIP service after years of providing VoIP consulting services. I wanted [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 12th August 2010 by Michael
Is your site truly secure if the little box says it is? Site verified secure! You see this on many sites out there. They all proudly display an image from a company saying that their site is scanned daily and has been determined secure. How many of these sites truly verify your site is secure? [...]
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Posted on Monday, 2nd August 2010 by Michael
ADA: Asterisk Desktop Assistant by Diginum The Asterisk Desktop Assistant is a plug-in that allows you to be able to click on telephone numbers inside of Microsoft Office Products, Firefox and Thunder Bird. Once you click on the number it will ring your phone, once you answer it will then dial and connect you to [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 10th June 2010 by Michael
MJSIP: Automating the Magic Jack SIP retrieval What is it: MJSIP is a simple Perl script written by a co-worker and myself. This script uses regular expression matching to automate the finding of your SIP password in the dump file. MJSIP has been tested on over 50 Jacks that were purchased and registered this month [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 9th June 2010 by Michael
Can you pop me now? Like most programs Asterisks offers the ability to launch system commands from with inside the application. This means it is possible for either a developer or a malicious person to execute system commands by simply editing the dial plan and making a phone call. This is nothing new the ability [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 5th May 2010 by Michael
Overcoming SIP over NAT On most of the Asterisk based PBX forums on the internet one of the top help related questions posted is “the phone rings and I can answer it but there is no voice” or one of many variants of that question. The issue is most likely due to the fact you [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 by Michael
Hacking the Magic Jack in 2010 for use on Trixbox or any other SIP device The concept and art of hacking the Magic Jack is actually really old. The reason I am writing this is that over the last year the process has become much harder. There is definitely ample information available online that if [...]
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Posted on Friday, 5th March 2010 by Michael
Vista Antivirus 2010 Quick removal Vista 2010 is a rogue anti-virus program that is usually advertised through the use of pop ups and fake security alerts that state that your computer is infected and that you should run an online anti-malware scan. Once the rogue program is installed, it will claim to scan your computer [...]
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Posted on Monday, 8th February 2010 by Michael
BlueCoat Web Proxy Bypass Several months ago an organization I work for implemented BlueCoat Web Proxy but they did not purchase a SSL offload card (required for organizations of our size as a license alone would bog down the rest of the box) or a SSL License. This basically limited the ability for us to [...]
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