July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
12h 59m
English
Some tools overwhelm VoIP systems by sending fake authorization attempts to them without ever responding to the challenge request that is used in SIP. One popular tool is often referred to as friendly scanner or SIPvicious. These types of tools keep a system busy handling bogus requests, overloading the system, making it difficult to handle real requests, and so on. Another suspicious behavior can be detected from someone trying to make long distance or international calls repeatedly within a short time period.
FreeSWITCH provides the ability to log a warning when an attempt is made to utilize credentials in the system (recognized or not). Programs such as Fail2Ban may then be used to monitor the ...
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