See also
- H. D. Moore
- Metasploit
- Rapid7
- ToneLoc, a war dialer for DOS.
- War dialing
- w3af
| Developer(s) | Metasploit LLC |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.0.1 / May 25, 2009 |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Security |
| License | BSD |
| Website | warvox.org at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-10-26) |
WarVOX was a free, open-source VOIP-based war dialing tool for exploring, classifying, and auditing phone systems. WarVOX processed audio from each call by using signal processing techniques and without the need of modems. [1] WarVOX used VoIP providers over the Internet instead of modems used by other war dialers. [2] It compared the pauses between words to identify numbers using particular voicemail systems. [3]
WarVox was merged into the Metasploit Project in August 2011. [4]
The WarVOX project is no longer maintained. [5]
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