More than 2,500 private branch exchanges (PBX)  companies were hacked by three people in the Philippines. These three people stole pass codes they sold to call center operators in Italy.    
Italian officials allege the sale of the pass codes helped finance terrorist activities, IDG News Service reported. On Friday, Italian officials arrested at least five people [...]

The Asterisk Development Team announced the third beta of Asterisk 1.6.2.0. Asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3 is available for immediate download at
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/
This is an incremental release of the 1.6.2.0 branch as the previous beta was released just over a month ago, and many issues have been resolved since then.  Included in this release are the following issues reported by [...]

July 8, 2009 — The leader supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, Wireless, IP and VoIP networks – GL Communications – announced today the release of enhanced PacketCheck™. CEO of the company – Mr. Vijay Kulkarni –  said it is a PC based Ethernet / IP BERT and Throughput test tool that [...]