[asterisk-users] Under heavy attack

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:43:49PM -0600, Joel Maslak wrote:
>> Is there really any benefit to blocking these, if you use good passwords?
>
> Regardless of any threat from those attacks succeeding, they completely
> saturated the uplink in our ADSL-connected office.
>
> What are they after, anyway? Merely cheap international calls?

They want them to sell on.

Ever wondered about all that spam you get offering you cheap routes to 
1000's of destinations... Where do you think they're getting the cheap 
routes from...