atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Avaya - Lucent Telephones & Systems Partner Mail VS security / hacking - how to prevent?!

not trying to start anything here, but you DTMF have a post giving someone a backdoor password to a system. They were not even a tech.(If you wish I can email you the link, no need to draw attention to it.) Not complaining cause I ended up needing it.

O - I believe it. I'm as guilty as the next guy but I try to watch it. Shoot me that mail so I can get rid of it, with over 5,000 posts Im sure I'll never find it. I found one the other day that was about 3 years old so I know I'm just as guilty as anyone else.


Somebody, please please fire me! :shrug:

I once posted a backdoor password on Usenet. Some guy ripped me a new one, telling me to consider how much damage I had done, letting it out, and that I should cancel my post with my News provider, etc. etc.,

Well, he had a valid point. It was stupid of me to post it. So I canceled it with my news provider (which probably doesn't get most of them off of the news servers), I went to Google and went through a procedure to remove it, which they did.

The funny part of the whole saga is that the guy that ripped me quoted my post in whole, revealing the p/w again, and when that was pointed out to him, he didn't do anything about it himself!!

So we all need to be vigiliant about posting and removing posts that contain passwords.

It seems this post has gotten off subject a bit. A guy needs help with his voice mail. Are you sure your system is getting hacked, and it is not crashing and defaulting? You say it happens pretty quick... has anyone monitored call trafic in to see if someone is playing in the mail? A digit grabber is a great little device you can hook up to suspected lines and see what the caller is dialing. You can block calls, monitor calls, ask for the phone companies help, etc... I suspect you have a bad voice mail before a hacker. Just my 2 cents.

It seems this post has gotten off subject a bit. A guy needs help with his voice mail. Are you sure your system is getting hacked...

It was suggested early on that it would be unusual for this to be a hack. That bit of logic was dismissed in favor of the rant that continued on.

As you say there are ways to track this problem down (if it really was a problem)... but then what do we know.

-Hal

Easy fix don't allow voicemail to answer, send all voicemail traffic manually and get a answering machine for after hour traffic. Still, this isn't bulletproof. If your looking for better security then your current equipment can provide your out of luck. I suggest for future insight that you check into the equipment that has been donated before you install it. It definitly is worth a service call to find out exactly what you are getting yourself into. But finger pointing and blame shouldn't bee done here. Give AVAYA a call and express your rage to them.

I love these type posts. I really like tincanphoneman's avatar too. But as I've said many times a phone mans advice is far and above the most valuable asset he has for his customers. I tend to agree that "hacking" has occured. I think you had a power issue that defaulted your password. Now, for the issue of a backdoor. The system has one cause that's the way Avaya wants it and I don't own enough stock in the company to BEECH about it. I do however recommend other systems when it comes to my customers. I'm not knockin AVAYA here, but if ya look at they don't like to be in the business of selling phone equipment anyway. Do ya remember the replaced Lucent logo. They changed it because everyone was telling the joke of why they had that logo. Reason, because that was what your butt ***** looked like when they got thru with you.
That should give this post a whole new run of life. I'll be watching.......

Everthing has a back door. Dont you think microsoft has a way to see everything on your computer/server at any given time? And give avaya some credit for actually addressing the problem. The backdoor your talking about is only on the older systems. The new ones dont come like that and if you really want to address your problem I have a release 6 Merlin Legend with a 007 MLM (which cant be hacked without serial number)voice mail if you want to trade I will gadly do so if you pay the shipping.

I wanna know when this will be made into a full length feature film

lol