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A few months ago after I had setup my Asterisk box I started receiving strange calls from people in Colorado and started to check my call logs. I noticed that the night before someone had made calls from my box to many different numbers in succession. xxx-xxx-2401, xxx-xxx-2402, xxx-xxx-2403, etc. I knew that my box had been compromised.

I had set weak secrets for my extensions and they were able to brute the secret and start making calls from my machine. I immediately changed all the secrets and have not had a problem since, but this article will show you some tools that can be used to test your own box and some settings that should be changed in order to secure it.

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This article will walk you through setting up faxing on a voice line within Elastix PBX.

The first thing that you will want to do is create a IAX2 extension. After that is done go to your Fax tab and select New Virtual Fax. The extension and secret should be the same of the IAX2 extension that you created. Fill in the rest of the required fields.

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