HITBSecConf2008 – Malaysia: Online registration closes on 24th Oct

This is a reminder that online registration for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia, the largest network security conference in Asia and the Middle East, closes on the 24th of October - walk in registrations are still accepted thereafter but prices increase to MYR1099. To book your seats online, please register through:

http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/register/

27th & 28th October 2008
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TECH TRAINING 1 - Structured Network Threat Analysis and Forensics
Trainers: Meling Mudin (spoonfork) and Lee Chin Sheng (geek00l) Seats Left: 3

TECH TRAINING 2 - Bluetooth, RFID & Wireless Hacking - UPDATED COURSE CONTENTS!
Trainers: Andrew 'Q' Righter (HacDC) and King Tuna Seats Left: 9

TECH TRAINING 3 - Web Application Security - Advanced Attacks and Defense
Trainer: Shreeraj Shah (Director, BlueInfy) Seats Left: CLASS IS FULL

TECH TRAINING 4 - The Exploit Laboratory 3.0 - UPDATED COURSE CONTENTS!
Trainers: Saumil Shah (Founder/CEO, Net-Square) & SK Chong (Security Consultant, SCAN Associates Bhd.) Seats Left: 6

Keynote Address - 29th & 30th October 2008 ==========================================

KEYNOTE 1 - "The Art of Click-Jacking" - Jeremiah Grossman (Founder & Chief Technology Officer, White Hat Security.)

KEYNOTE 2 - "Cyberwar is Bullshit" - Marcus Ranum (Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security)

KEYNOTE 3 - "Welcome to the 0wned World" - Dr. Anton Chuvakin (Chief Research Officer, Log Logic Inc.)

KEYNOTE 4 - "Dissolving an Industry as a Hobby" - Peter Sunde [brokep] and Fredrik Neij [TiAMO] (Founders of The Pirate Bay - TPB)

FULL CONFERENCE AGENDA:
http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/agenda.htm

Quick Fix for Windows Mobile Devices with Connection Manager on Bootup

When you start up your Windows Mobile device (with a custom ROM) in Canada and probably some other parts of the world, the handy little wizard will tell you that there's no operator in the database, with a message like this:

"The operator does not exist in the database. Please contact your operator for the connection settings".

If you want to fix it, just do this:

Start->Settings->Connections->Connection Wizard->Menu->untick auto check

TringME Introduces Flash based VoiceXML Platform

TringME, India's favourite new startup has introduced a cool new platform for VoiceXML that makes use of the benefits of Flash from Macromedia/Adobe.

The new platform will make it very simple for Flash developers to integrate VoiceXML in their applications. Integrating voice and telephony together with the ease of use Flash provides will be a sure winner.

Check it out:

Developers now get virtually the same out-of-the-box experience since using the TringMe platform. They do not require anything else besides Flash and Web technologies to create rich voice and telephony applications. Whether it’s speech recognition, DTMF or Text-to-speech, TringMe’s solution provides it all so that the application can be really rich is providing the best possible user-interaction. Given the presence of flash all around, the simplicity of ‘distributing’ such widgets without any additional software download or installation makes this solution even more attractive.

Alongwith Flash, the VoiceXML capability is also accessible from Instant Messengers, TringMe MobileVoIP, Phones. In other words, one can use a phone, IM, Browser or any such means to interact with VoiceXML and TringMe platform.

To View the demo, click here. If you'd like to be added to the beta list, head over to Pluggd.in and comment on the article to be added.

APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional Version 2 Run Through with Screenshots

Well, Here we are with a new APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard Editions release. It's been a while, we just haven't been able to find the time to post about this new release. We did post a brief news article citing the release notes from ApsTel but it never went furthur than that. You may remember our original articles on the subject, Part 1 Here, Part 2 Here, Part 3 Here and Part 4 Here.

We also run a pretty geeky but fun sister site, called Rate My Asterisk/VOIP Dialplan. It's just like one of those hotornot or ratemyface sites except it's all about rating PBX Dialplan graphics. Very easy to do with APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard Editions.

We've hosted the binaries for APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional and Standard on our server so you can grab them here and help offload the APSTel servers.
Free APSTel Visual Dialplan Download from RatemyDialplan.com

• Windows Visual Dialplan - Std and Pro
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional - Windows
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Standard - Windows

• Linux Visual Dialplan - Std and Pro
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional - Linux
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Standard - Linux

So, not too much in the interface has changed this time around so this little article won't be as screenshot heavy as the last ones were.

We're going to focus on the additional features and what that means for us Dialplan Creation ninjas. With the release of version 2.0 comes quite a few changes under the hood and some visible to us end users.

Some of the new features available to us;

• Asterisk server configuration view
• Pre-populated components with configuration data read from Asterisk server
• More powerful validation engine that now validates dial plan against Asterisk server configuration data
• Ability to fine tune validation engine behavior
• Improved GUI with descriptive toolbar icons
• Ability to save dial plan graphical presentation as image file
• Cepstral Text-to-Speech support

Hey look, a new splash screen!

Now, on to the program. We are especially fond of the save as image and validation engine. We'll get to those later. First lets check out the Asterisk Server Configuration View.

Here you can see the program allows for data from the Asterisk server to be populated right in the application. You can view all your settings right from the server while you're creating dialplans. This is very handy for people who aren't so familiar with the other configuration options of Asterisk but want to be able to manage them anyway. Great addition in our opinion.

Another new feature is the ability to customize the validation engine.

Now you can set where you want breaks to happen, if at all. So, say for instance you're working on a large dialplan and you've only put placeholders in for certain things. Instead of having the validator fail when checking those items, instead you can have it skip over them so you can still write out your dialplan and perform live testing. This is pretty handy, and a great feature addition we've been waiting for with the application as it makes testing your new dialplans much more effective and easy.

For those of you that use TextToSpeech with Cepstral, you'll be happy to find that there is now support for this within the APSTel GUI

Now you can create even fancier dialplans with TTS support. Very cool!

Finally, we come to one of the coolest features, at least in our opinion. The ability to export your new dialplans as images. Great for Rate My Dialplan - hint hint!.

Cool, we can export as SVG! and also Image formats. Here's the actual save window.

Don't forget that we also run a pretty geeky but fun sister site, called Rate My Asterisk/VOIP Dialplan. It's just like one of those hotornot or ratemyface sites except it's all about rating PBX Dialplan graphics. Very easy to do with APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard Editions.

While you're at it, download the binaries for APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional and Standard so you can create some terrific diagrams for Rate My Asterisk/VOIP Dialplan. You know you want to, you could become internet famous!

Free APSTel Visual Dialplan Download from RatemyDialplan.com

• Windows Visual Dialplan - Std and Pro
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional - Windows
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Standard - Windows

• Linux Visual Dialplan - Std and Pro
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional - Linux
• APSTel Visual Dialplan Standard - Linux

Tracking Phone System Usage with Google Analytics made possible by IfByPhone

This sounds really interesting. We are not sure if they are using Asterisk anywhere in the mix, but we assume it wouldn't be too difficult for a team familiar with Asterisk to develop something similar to dump the call flow or ivr tree usage to a file and then have analytics (or awstats, or webalizer for that matter) analyize the data for campaign or usage statistics.

Interesting concept none the less. What do you guys think?

Telephone application platform company IfByPhone made a whopper of an announcement today. Marketers are now able to integrate direct-response call data with Web-based advertising information available from Google® Analytics. That essentially means that it's now possible to gauge the impact of an offline lead-generation campaign.

Ifbyphone blends call-detail data with Google Analytics website statistics, creating a Marketing 2.0 “mashup” that essentially measures the success of how well an ad performed as part of an integrated marketing campaign. The data that results provides detailed insights as to where the telephone calls came from the same way website and click-stream data is viewed with online campaigns. The IfByPhone app creates a pseudo Web page that is dynamically linked to the Smart Telephone Number assigned to an Ifbyphone customer’s account. Each time the phone rings, a page view is automatically counted by Google to provide advertisers with new insight from their inbound lead generation telephone activity in a far more comprehensive manner. In addition to page views, each telephone number may also be associated with a Google tracking value for source, content, campaign, term and medium.

Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro said, “We’ve now make it easy for any advertiser to track, trace and report a campaign’s specifically assigned telephone numbers that are published in ads and company literature, or aired on television and radio spots, and track calls in Google Analytics.”

Full Article Link Here - Posted to -users list by Eric C

XMPP Organization set to offer Free (yes, free!) SSL Certificates for XMPP services

This is really cool,

BTW, I think I forgot to mention that we're working to simplify the process of obtaining a free digital certificate from the XMPP Intermediate Certificate Authority (e.g., the process is now "self-service"). As part of that work, the URL is now:

http://xmpp.org/ca/

Let me know if you have any questions about the XMPP ICA.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

NCIS (the tv show) is using Aastra Phones

This was posted to the mailing list the other day, pretty cool to see Aastra in the mainstream, usually it's only Avaya or Cisco. Go Aastra!

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/video/video.php?cid=446409482&pid=Q8yZmjeNMW9PpkY4WAuOQ1akr5riIFnY&category=episodes&play=true
Goto time mark 42:30
Watch the phone on the left bottom before Gibbs gets the drink.

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