PBX PHONE PHREAKERS RING UP HUGE BILLS IN OZ

Security loophole allows bad nattering

Phreakers are using security loopholes in PBX systems to make international calls at the expense of businesses in Western Australia.

Telephone system hackers are exploiting the call forward function on older PBXs to make expensive international phone calls at virtually no cost to themselves, WA police warn. In one case a internet-based PBX system in Perth was used to make 11,000 international calls in the space of 46 hours.

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