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Unmasking Caller ID With Asterisk

Posted: July 22nd, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: VoIP News | 3 Comments »

Cory Andrews over at the VoIP Insider has an interesting post about using Asterisk and a SIP trunking to unmask a private phone number.

It seems that at the recent “The Last HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth)” conference, hacker Kevin Mitnick (best known for his work gaining access to other’s computer networks using social engineering), displayed a script for Asterisk that showed a person’s caller id even if it was a private number.

I am not sure how exactly Mitnick went about doing this, but is there no end to what you can do with Asterisk?

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3 Comments on “Unmasking Caller ID With Asterisk”

  1. 1 Brian Kirk said at 12:39 pm on July 22nd, 2008:

    a client asked me this morning if asterisk supported SMS. i don’t know of such as feature through asterisk… does SMS through asterisk exist?

  2. 2 Garrett Smith said at 2:11 pm on July 22nd, 2008:

    @Brian:

    You can use Asterisk, however you will need to get a third party application to do so.

  3. 3 Voice of VOIPSA said at 8:49 pm on July 22nd, 2008:

    Asterisk “hack” to show blocked Caller-ID points to larger trust issues with SIP…

    Can Asterisk really be used to “unmask”blocked Caller-ID and show the private number?
    Well, yes… but it really has less to do with Asterisk then it does with not respecting the signaling sent to you by a SIP trunking provider. It……

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