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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Summarizing ZDNet's Zero Day Posts for September


The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at ZDNet's Zero Day for September. You can subscribe to my personal RSS feed, Zero Day's main feed, or follow me on Twitter:

01. Spamvertised 'Facebook notification' leads to exploits and malware 
02. Google, Mozilla and Microsoft ban the DigiNotar Certificate Authority in their browsers 
03. Microsoft themed ransomware variant spotted in the wild 
04. 'Man in wheelchair falls down the elevator shaft' scam spreading on Facebook 
05. New ransomware variant uses false child porn accusations 
06. Russian Embassy in London hit by a DDoS attack 
07. uTorrent.com hacked, serving scareware 
08. Bank of Melbourne Twitter account hacked, spreading phishing links 
09. Malicious spam campaigns proliferating 
10. Spamvertised 'We are going to sue you' emails lead to malware 
11. XSS bug in Skype for iPhone, iPad allows address book theft 
12. Researcher releases details on 6 SCADA vulnerabilities 
13. DIY botnet kit spotted in the wild 
14. New Mac OS X trojan poses as malicious PDF file 
15. Survey: 60 percent of users use the same password across more than one of their online accounts

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- October 04, 2011
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