Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for January

The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at ZDNet's Zero Day for January. You can also go through previous summaries for December, November, October, September, August and July, as well as subscribe to my personal RSS feed or Zero Day's main feed.

Notable articles for January include Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability; Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet and Google Video search results poisoned to serve malware.

01. Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack
02. Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malware
03. Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability
04. Paris Hilton's official web site serving malware
05. Malware author greets Microsoft's Windows Defender team
06. 3.5m hosts affected by the Conficker worm globally
07. GoDaddy hit by a DDoS attack
08. Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet
09. Malware-infected WinRAR distributed through Google AdWords
10. New mobile malware silently transfers account credit
11. GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstream
12. Google Video search results poisoned to serve malware