RE: War Dial on my PBX

[".:[ Death Star]:." <deathstar () optonline net>]

I'm not a PBX expert, but isn't there a feature that doesn't allow calls
to be made to overseas numbers. I know that was the case in two of the
companies I worked for. If you don't need to call India or Japan them
disable them. I think you can even control the numbers that are allowed
to call another area code.
-----Original Message-----
From: Maria J. Vello [mailto:mjvello () securecs com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:43 PM
To: 'Maria J. Vello'; 'David Barnett'; incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: War Dial on my PBX

David,

Make sure remote access is disabled.
Make sure your not allowed to make outgoing calls from your voice mail
box.
Call your local phone company or service provider (whomever you have the
DID
numbers and phone service through) they can trace where this is coming
from
and they have a security department of their own.
any modems connected to lines?  they are probably war dialing against
you
two way trunks too, if they are war dialing.
(disabling trunk to trunk connections was key)

-----Original Message-----
From: David Barnett [mailto:dbarn064 () earthlink net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:41 PM
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: War Dial on my PBX




My company's PBX system (Nortel Meridien) is getting hammered. All our
DIDs
are getting hit. Aside from disabling trunk to trunk, what could I do
to
help mitigate this problem. Another office last year was hit and
through
the voice mail system someone was able to make $25,000 worth of  calls
in a
day. This was another system though. Any help is much appreciated.
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