Introducing a New WhiteList Security Model for Wazo
Today we’re pleased to introduce a new state-of-the-art Travelin’ Man 3 firewall implementation for 2017. Five years ago, we developed a new security model for Asterisk® servers that whitelisted those...
View ArticleTwofer Tuesday: 2 Cloud Servers for the Price of a RasPi
It’s been more than a year since we last chatted about Cloud At Cost. Because they’re in the midst of yet another 50% off Fire Sale and to close out February with a bang, it seemed like a good time to...
View Article3CX in the Cloud: 8 Great Ways to Secure Your Server
Now that many of you have taken advantage of the opportunity to deploy a free 3CX server, it seemed like an opportune time to share what we’ve learned while deploying 3CX on hosted platforms in the...
View ArticleRTPbleed Security Alert: Asterisk Calls Can Be Intercepted
If you’ve installed Asterisk® during the past 4½ years, your server has a MAJOR security problem. If you didn’t already know, with Asterisk, your VoIP conversations actually are carried over a random...
View ArticleVoIP Security: Installing SSL Certificates with Incredible PBX
We’ve got some revolutionary VoIP projects coming your way over the next several weeks, but I’m sorry to say the hardest part of them is getting your server configured to use secure and encrypted web...
View ArticleThe New Hybrid PBX: Why Settle for a One Trick Pony?
Let’s face it. It’s hard not to like the application development flexibility that Asterisk® offers, especially if you’re part of an organization that has very specific telephony needs. But the price...
View ArticleA New Day for 3CX: Free Text-to-Speech Apps from Santa
And you thought you needed an Asterisk® PBX for your users to enjoy GPL1 text-to-speech applications such as current News Headlines and Weather reports from the convenience of their telephone. Well,...
View ArticleIt’s Soup: The Definitive Quick Start Guide to Wazo 17.17
Today we’re pleased to introduce Wazo 17.17, the latest iteration in the Wazo fork of XiVO. Twelve years in the making with the same development team, Wazo 17.17 is really something special. It’s the...
View ArticleBeginner’s Navigation Guide to VoIP PBXs and Nerd Vittles
Here at Nerd Vittles, we cover a lot of VoIP territory over the course of a year. To kick off the new year, we thought it might be helpful for those just beginning their VoIP adventure to sketch out...
View ArticleMeet the New Kid on the Block: Introducing (free) VitalPBX
If you liked Ombutel, you’re going to love VitalPBX. If you’ve never heard of Ombutel but you live and breathe Asterisk®, you’re still going to love VitalPBX. For everyone else, you’re going to love...
View ArticleVitalPBX in the Cloud: Providers, Backups, & Airtight Security
Last month we introduced VitalPBX, a terrific new (free) VoIP platform that’s about as intuitive as software can get. We followed up with a dozen Incredible PBX applications that really showed off the...
View ArticleOne Minute Wonder: Introducing VitalPBX for VirtualBox
Last week we took VitalPBX to the Cloud with our rock-solid firewall. And this week we’ll show you how to get VitalPBX up and running on any desktop computer in less than a minute using VirtualBox®. If...
View ArticleDare to Compare: The Best (free) VoIP Offerings for 2018
Last week we showed you how to get 10 months of free hosting for your Incredible PBX® in the Cloud. And today we present our semi-annual survey of the latest and greatest VoIP offerings for 2018. The...
View ArticleA New VPN for All Seasons: Introducing OpenVPN for Asterisk
This month marks our twentieth anniversary wrestling with virtual private networks. Here’s a quick walk down memory lane. Our adventure began with the Altiga 3000 series VPN concentrators which we...
View ArticleSPAM Blocker & CNAM Cornucopia for Incredible PBX 2020
If you enjoy calls from politicians and car warranty offers as much as we do, then today’s your lucky day. Blocking spam phone calls has been a challenge to put it charitably. Thanks to some earlier...
View ArticleBlink Cameras: The Travelin’ Man’s Dream Come True
Okay, I’ll admit it. Our family has morphed into a band of traveling gypsies. We’re spreading our time between four cities and four "homes." Not many folks are that crazy, but many of you have vacation...
View ArticleIs SIP Trunking Safe & Reliable in the DDoS World?
Since last Thursday when VoIP.ms suffered (and continues to suffer) one of the worst Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks in the VoIP era, we’ve been asked a thousand times whether any SIP...
View ArticleMigrating Incredible PBX 2022 to a PUBLIC-Facing Cloud PBX
Today we want to show you how to reconfigure Incredible PBX 2022 for Rocky 8 into a PUBLIC-facing Cloud PBX. What that means is authorized users can connect a SIP phone to the PBX regardless of where...
View ArticleHappy Fourth: Our Gift to You — 17+ Years of Nerd Vittles
$300 Chromebook Faceoff: ARM vs. x86? Which Is Better? Introducing Incredible PBX 2022 for the Raspberry Pi Oracle Cloud: Grab a Free Incredible PBX Cloud Server for Life Systems Integration and Public...
View ArticleBlack Friday Tip: August Door Locks Have No Competition
We do a considerable amount of traveling so electronic door locks are a must if you want the flexibility of sharing your home or letting a neighbor in when something comes unglued… or leaks. There’s no...
View ArticleSangoma Beefs Up FreePBX Security… For a Price
We’ve lost count of the number of FreePBX® security breaches that were directly attributable to vulnerabilities in the FreePBX web interface. Suffice it to say, it was the reason that PBX in a Flash...
View ArticleThe Ambidextrous Laptop: A Perfect Fit for Asterisk and VoIP
Until we bought a 15-inch Windows laptop with 20 gigs of RAM and a 1 terabyte NVMe SSD for under $500, we never would have considered such a computer an ideal virtual machine platform. And, to our...
View ArticleOur Favorite All-You-Can-Eat Deals in Cyberspace
Let’s begin with a mea culpa. We’ve been wrong on a few all-you-can-eat deals over the years including the CloudAtCost switcheroo, the Google Voice fiasco, and a few other cloud provider implosions....
View ArticleZero-Day Vulnerabilities Compromise All FreePBX Systems
If you’re a user of Asterisk® and FreePBX®, the DEFCON 31 Conference in Las Vegas did not disappoint this year. It exposed not one but three critical, unpatched vulnerabilities in affected...
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