Posted on 05/04/2009 7:12:47 PM PDT by Cindy
Friday, May 1, 2009
Summarizing Zero Day's Posts for April
The following is a brief summary of all of my posts at ZDNet's Zero Day for April. You can also go through previous summaries for March, 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: Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor; Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion and Twitter hit by multiple variants of XSS worm.
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http://www.us-cert.gov/current
US CERT.GOV
http://www.us-cert.gov
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Welcome to US-CERT
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
US-CERT is aware of a new variant of the Conficker Worm that was discovered on April 9, 2009. With the discovery of a new variant, it is even more important for users to remain vigilant in detecting the Conficker Worm and systematically cleaning systems of these infections to prevent potential, future cyber events. PLEASE READ THE CURRENT ACTIVITY UPDATE for more information about the Conficker worm.
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