Sunday, January 01, 2012

Summarizing ZDNet's Zero Day Posts for December


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




01. New study claims that Chrome is the most secure browser
02. FTC issues refunds to scareware victims
03. Yahoo! Mail introduces two factor authentication
04. Web malware exploitation kits updated with new Java exploit
05. Cybercriminals exploiting the death of Kim Jong-Il
06. Localized ransomware variants impersonate law enforcement agencies
07. Cybercriminals hijack Facebook accounts through bogus browser extensions
08. Amnesty International UK compromised, serving exploits and malware

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Summarizing ZDNet's Zero Day Posts for November



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



01. Massive DNS poisoning attack in Brazil serving exploits and malware
02. South Korea to block port 25 as anti-spam countermeasure
03. Researchers spot malware using a stolen government certificate
04. SCADA systems at the Water utilities in Illinois, Houston, hacked
05. New Facebook worm spreading
06. Popular free antivirus apps for Android fail anti-malware tests

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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Summarizing ZDNet's Zero Day Posts for October


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


01. iPhone 5 themed emails serve Windows malware
02. 27 of 100 tested Chrome extensions contain 51 vulnerabilities
03. 37 percent of users browsing the Web with insecure Java versions
04. Google introduces Safe Browsing Alerts for network administrators
05. Malware Watch: U.S Chamber of Commerce official letter; DHL delivery error, IRS notifications
06. 'Steve Jobs Alive!' emails lead to exploits and malware
07. Which is the most popular malware propagation tactic?
08. Spamvertised 'Cancellation of the package delivery' emails serving malware
09. Hacking group from Nepal posts 10,000 stolen Facebook accounts online
10. Over a million web sites affected in mass SQL injection attack
11. New Mac OS X malware disables Apple's malware protection
12. New Mac OS X malware with DDoS functionality spotted in the wild
13. Security researcher finds major security flaw in Facebook

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