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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for September

As usual, here's September's summary of all of my posts at Zero Day. You may also want to catch up and go through August's and July's summaries, next to adding my personal RSS feed or Zero Day's main feed to your RSS reader.

Notable article for September - Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service.

01. DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs
02. Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
03. Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
04. Facebook introducing new security warning feature
05. Google downplays Chrome's carpet-bombing flaw
06. Targeted malware attack against U.S schools intercepted
07. The most "dangerous" celebrities to search for in 2008
08. Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack
09. Attacker: Hacking Sarah Palin's email was easy
10. Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
11. India's government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryption
12. Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome
13. 44% of second hand mobile devices still contain sensitive data
14. Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again

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