Remember the cyberattacks against Google and other businesses back in China? Google blogged about “A new approach to China” and it was all over the news everywhere for a while. Well, this week security firm Damballa released a detailed look into the Aurora botnet that was apparently responsible for these attacks. The 31-page [...]

VocalTec announces
that one of Russia’s leading tier-1 operators selected VocalTec’s Large-Scale Class-5
solution as its core platform for the delivery of VoIP subscriber services.

The initial order, representing the first stage of the deployment, includes the delivery
of VocalTec’s Essentra BAX Large-Scale Class-5 solution supporting over 100,000 subscribers.
The system is dimensioned to provide service to a much larger user base in support
of the customer’s future expansion plans.

The deployment includes an extensive set of applications, and allows the customer
to seamlessly migrate his network to an all IP infrastructure and provide his end-users
with the latest in IP telephony services.

Interact
Incorporated are pleased to announce that Broadvox has
certified version 6.14 of Interact’s SPOT Media Platform for interoperability with
the BroadvoxGO! SIP Trunking product line. The SPOT VoiceXML/CCXML Media Platform
completed extensive testing and proved to be successful in all aspects.

Patton is
now taking orders for the SmartNode 5200 Enterprise Session Border Router. Providing
"any-to-any" protocol mediation for secure connectivity between IP-PBX systems and
Internet Telephony Service Provider, the newest SmartNode resolves security and interoperability
challenges businesses face when implementing SIP trunking.

The SmartNode ESBR lowers overall equipment costs by including an advanced IP router,
QoS, VoIP-VPN security, least-cost call routing and IP-link redundancy—with no added
licensing or support fees.

Updating a story we have literally been following for years ever since it broke back in July 2006, the FBI recently issued a news release indicating that Edwin Pena pled guilty in what we have been calling the “Pena/Moore VoIP fraud case”. From the news release:Edwin Pena, 27, a Venezuelan citizen, pleaded guilty before U.S. [...]

Olle Johansson recently alerted us that there is a “dialstring injection” vulnerability in Asterisk. As Olle notes in his post about the vulnerability, this is similar to a SQL injection attack against a database where there is not enough filtering being done on strings that are being input to the system. Olle writes:Many VoIP [...]

Vopium announcesthat its Global Mobile VoIP and Messaging Service is now available to partners asa white label solution. Vopium expects to announce the first white label partner shortly. Vopium provides users with seamless, easy & instant high-quality international mobilecommunication from any mobile handset or web-browser. Having launched the new InstantMessaging service, both on the web and across all major mobile operating systems,Vopium is convinced that the company now offers the most seamless and coherent mobileB2C VoIP and Messaging Service available in the market.

Interxion
has been selected by Nimbuzz to
house its mission-critical application infrastructure. With over 20,000 users a day
worldwide signing up to use their application, Nimbuzz had an urgent requirement for
a best-in-class, highly connected facility which also offered them flexibility, support,
and room to grow.

HelloSoft announces
the extension of its carrier proven VoIP and Voice Call Continuity solution suite
to future 4G-LTEdevices. HelloSoft's VoIP and VCC solution allows seamless handoff
of voice calls between VoIP on the 4G LTE network and circuit switched voice systems
that run on cellular 2G and 3G networks. Supporting VoIP over LTE (VoLTE) extends
HelloSoft's recently released, award winning VoIP and VCC Convergence Client Software
platform for Android mobile devices, which also supports handsets running Windows
Mobile, Symbian and Linux operating systems.