FreePBX under Attack

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Integrating apiban.org with FreePBX

The last few Open Source Lounge sessions have seen conversation around apiban.org, with last night’s session getting a detailed presentation by Fred Posner on how it all works. The apiban.org project is a SIP blacklist compiled from honeypots with a simple API that allows you to dynamically update iptables rules with known current attackers. Generally I’m not a fan of blacklists on principle, but there are obviously situations where whitelisting won’t work. If one is working with this constraint…