Opening Compressed PCAPs with SNGREP

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Sometimes you get a compressed pcap and sngrep has difficultly opening the file. No problem. Here is a one-liner to help.

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ITEXPO 2022

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ITEXPO 2022 is done. Very brief summary of the event.

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Thoughts on the Astricon 2023/ITEXPO announcemnent

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Sangoma announces that Astricon 2023 will be co-located with ITEXPO in FTL in Feb 2023. My thoughts.

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For My Security

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American Express wants your name, date of birth, and social security number... for your security

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APT fails: NO_PUBKEY

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Sometimes a public key failure ruins an apt update. Most times, it can be resolved quickly.

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Kamailio Install Module Git

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Quick tip: Installing a single Kamailio module from git is a straight forward process.

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Thanksgiving Message 2021

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Every year (more or less) I write a Thanksgiving message as Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday of the year. Lets talk Thanksgiving 2021.

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Freeswitch 1.10.7 Released

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The major announcement at ClueCon 2021 was the release of FreeSWITCH 1.10.7.

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APIBAN Now Has IPset

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APIBAN helps prevent unwanted SIP traffic by identifying addresses of known bad actors before they attack your system. IPsets (lists of IPs) can be used by many firewalls, iptables, and appliances (such as pfsense, opnsense, etc.) to block unwanted traffic to your network.

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Handling Non-SIP Attacks With Kamailio

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The core parser of Kamailio helps protect your system against non-SIP traffic. But, theres even more you can and should do.

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