Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for March

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

Notable articles include: Inside BBC's Chimera botnet and Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection.

01. Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March
02. Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!
03. Google downplays severity of Gmail CSRF flaw
04. USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served
05. International Kaspersky sites susceptible to SQL injection attacks
06. New study details the dynamics of successful phishing
07. BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
08. Comcast responds to passwords leak on Scribd
09. Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malware
10. Ex-botnet master hired by TelstraClear
11. Study: IE8's SmartScreen leads in malware protection
12. Scareware meets ransomware: "Buy our fake product and we'll decrypt the files"
13. Inside BBC's Chimera botnet