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Today, I was sitting in my local car dealers Service Dept, knowing I had a couple hours to kill, I signed into their Guest WiFi network and logged into our CRM and did what I needed to, but I couldn't access Email, so I fired up Wireguard, and no go, WWW worked - I was just using it for past 40 minutes, other websites worked as well.
FreePBX versions 15,16, and 17 have a critical exploit that is being actively exploited in the wild.
The exploit is believed to be related to Endpoint Manager and the Admin page access. By default EPM is installed. If you have previously uninstalled EPM, you have a fair chance, at this time, of being safe, however, don't be complacent, security has never been high on Sangoma's list, nor has being transparent.
As everyone who owns a UPS knows, SLA batteries, a type of Lead Acid chemistry that's commonly used in UPS's, usually fail after two or so years (the hot and humid Queensland climate helps with this quick demise), often without warning, requiring you to yet again fork out more cash to buy brand new batteries.
In breaking news, Sangoma have announced that Multi Factor Authentication for FreePBX, a commercial module with a hotly contentious ongoing yearly fee, will from April 1 2025, be completely free - kind of, for FreePBX users.
The quality of aussiebroadband "support" /cough/ continues to amaze me, apparently, now they can not even read.
On Monday 27/1/25, my automated network monitoring and control scripting emailed me saying that it has disabled IPv6 on the router as it was repeatedly failing route testing (after 8hrs).
In 2020 when RedHat took over CentOS, many predicted it was with the intent of destroying it, being derived from RHEL it was a direct competitor, some say those people have been vindicated, as that's exactly what RedHat did, and its short life-span replacement, CentOS Stream, is just another Fedora, this left FreePBX devs in a bind.