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BuzzTechnologies has released independent Web Traffic Data from Truehits.The Data reflects the rapid uptake of the site amongst users in Asia.

Month        Page Views            Thai Users          Sessions
04/2008      226,733(+41.69%)      32,698(+94.77%)     75,238(+128.26%)
05/2008      2,208,797(+874.18%)   351,965(+976.41%)   1,552,147(+1962.98%)
06/2008      10,765,687(+387.40%)  980,096(+178.46%)   4,277,642(+175.60%)
Average daily users is in excess of 150,000

Earlier this week, the team at Digium released four new security vulnerabilities:

Homemade PBX. This story come from the days (as far as 1992) when people was brave enough to take soldering iron and make their own radios, computers.... or even PBXs!!!

Just to show that VoIP security is not all about SIP, researchers Himanshu Dwivedi and Zane Lackey from iSEC Partners have produced some interesting material on vulnerabilities in IAX, which they just presented at the recent Black Hat conference. IAX (pronounced eeks) as you may know, is a proprietary protocol often used to connect together Asterisk servers for the purposes of call routing.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of ?2007 Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Asia Report ? Japan? to their offering. Japan?s telecommunications sector is one of the most active markets in the world.

Now available to businesses of all sizes, VoIP is experiencing rapid market adoption, offering the ability to reduce costs, improve productivity and streamline network management by converging voice and data communications over a single IP network. However, investigating and understanding the options available and deploying VoIP technology can be a challenging undertaking for many small and medium-sized businesses.

Welcome back!OK, so this was a bit of a long hiatus between posts on this series, and unlike some folks I certainly wasn?t out yachting, but hey, you get what you pay for in this game, and this is the free stuff kids. So, we were on the subject of ?Intimate VoIP Phone Security Questions? to ask your vendors?ahhh, yes, that was it. 11 questions in total, because ?Top 10? is so pedestrian and de rigeur to boot.

As systems become increasingly interconnected, how do we prevent Spam for Internet Telephony, a.k.a. ?SPIT? or ?VoIP spam?.