<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120608-fbi-criminals-auto-dialing-with-hacked.html?Inform=nl&netht=rn_120808&nladname=120808dailynewsamal">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120608-fbi-criminals-auto-dialing-with-hacked.html?Inform=nl&netht=rn_120808&nladname=120808dailynewsamal</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; "><p class="first" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">Criminals are taking advantage of a bug in the Asterisk Internet telephony system that lets them pump out thousands of scam phone calls in an hour, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Friday.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">The FBI didn't say which versions of Asterisk were vulnerable to the bug, but it advised users to upgrade to the latest version of the software. Asterisk is an open-source product that lets users turn a Linux computer into a VoIP telephone exchange.</p></span></div></body></html>