Tweet Week: Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2009

Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.

Nov 30, 2009

Updated my list of Gumblar zombie URLs – there are currently 341 items

Dec 1, 2009

Distributed brute-force attack against WordPress  [isc.sans.org] and [theregister.co.uk]

[thenextweb.com] Chat with a hacker.  – 50,000 defaced websites a week…

Dec 4, 2009

IE6 & 7 have a security hole. An exploit is in circulation. The patch will be available on Dec 8.

Warning for webmasters of TYPO3-powered sites  – vulnerable extensions

Dec 5, 2009

Found an active incarnation of the exploit that uses Twitter API (Mebroot) with mal domains registered on Dec 4, 2009. Stay tuned…

For some reason, most of the infected sites (the twitter api hack) are hosted by aruba.it (several IPs).

If you want more real-time experience, you can follow @UnmaskParasites on Twitter.

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