Crooks Deliver Call Blizzards Via a Bug in Asterisk
December 09, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 11 months, 3 weeks ago
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How would you like to be on the receiving end of thousands of scam phone calls in an hour? In an auto-dialing nightmare, that's exactly what's happening thanks to a bug in an older version of Digium's Asterisk open source VoIP (voice-over-IP) software. The FBI has warned users of Asterisk to upgrade to the most current version, although it has not specified which version has the bug.