Can you find a way to eavesdrop Skype? NSA may be willing to pay if you do

According to "The register" NSA is willing to pay billions of dollars to anyone that can offer an eavesdropping solution that will allow the agency to listen on P2P voice calls and IM messages.
Now since Skype isn't making big bucks for parent company eBay, selling a key escrow that will allow NSA to use less computational resources to decrpyt the information might be an easy to generate extra revenue.

Greeting of prosperity in the Chinese year of Ox - gung hei faat choih 恭喜發財

Wishing gung hei faat choih 恭喜發財
Good luck, success and prosperity in the new Chinese year of the Ox

Happy New Year

I would like to wish you happy new year,
May this New Year bring newly found prosperity, love, happiness and delight in your life.

Exploited Asterisk servers are to blame for recent vishing attacks

Recent vishing attacks have been conducted by criminal taking advantage of a known bug in older Asterisk PBX systems. According to an FBI advisory published on The Internet Crime Complaint Center the attackers exploited the known bug to gain unauthorized access to numerous Asterisk PBX systems and later used these systems as mass auto-dialers. The attackers generated thousends of calls to victims in which they attempted to extract sensitive information from the victims.
PCWorld has more information

FEMA phones hacked

According to EILEEN SULLIVAN with AP, unauthorized calls to the middle east were placed over the FEMA phone system causing an estimated damage of $12,000 in call charges to organization - A part of homeland security Dept.
The organization is blaming the undisclosed contractor/integrator of the newly installed voicemail system for not securing the system.
I'm just guessing here, but it sounds like someone left an unprotected DISA access or didn't enforce user PIN codes policy allowing the phreaker to user default vendor PIN codes to configure call forward to the middle eastern destination number.

Trojan on http://i7san.jeeran.com/dsc[x].jpg

Recently some blogs and minor websites embed pictures from the following source: http://i7san.jeeran.com/dsc[x].jpg where x is a varying number. the picture contains malicious vbs code. it is recommended not to stop the browser from downloading the picture, not to allow unknown vbs code to run and notify the site owner.

Yet another Windows Live Messenger scam

If you have received an instant message from one of your contact with a link to x.imagecrisp.info or x.imagecroco.info with x being your contact name, kindly disregard this message and most importantly do not enter your password and windows live credentials on that web site!

Most likely that your contact's account has been compromised and those messages are sent without his knowledge.

If you have already entered your credentials in the rouge web site, change your Windows Live password as soon as possible. Although not tested, the logic is that bad agent will no longer have your password and won't be able to send messages on your behalf.