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The Saturday night boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey was one of the most awaited sports events of 2010. It should not be a surprise then that cybercriminals took advantage of it to spread malware. Another blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) attack led users who wanted to watch the fight online via live video streams (using the search phrase “manny pacquiao vs joshua clottey live streaming”) to malicious sites.

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Pacquiao-Clottey Live Streams Lead to FAKEAV

Security researchers recently unveiled findings about malware that came preinstalled on a Vodafone mobile phone handset.

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Malware Gets Smart with Vodafone Smartphone

Researchers from Microsoft recently unearthed exploits targeting the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability. On February 16, Adobe released a security advisory describing a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.X and 9.X. Once the vulnerability is exploited, attackers gain the capability to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on affected systems.

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More Adobe Exploits in the Wild

Following our blog, 0-Day attack on IE6: JS.Sykipot doesn’t spare retired software , covering the recent IE 0-day , we thought it might be interesting to look at an attack in the wild using this vulnerabili

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Backdoor.Sykipot At Work

The number of serious zero-day vulnerabilities and potential exploits discovered in recent days is higher than normal.

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Multiple Vendors Affected By New Vulnerabilities

April 3 cannot come soon enough for those who are eager to get their hands on the iPad . If anything, Apple ’ s recent announcement that the gadget will soon be available in the United States only added to the excitement over the much-talked-about gadget.

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iPad Giveaway Gives Users’ Identities Away

Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly quiet month—the vendor is releasing two bulletins covering a total of eight vulnerabilities.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday - March 2010

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a new vulnerability note . However, this particular “vulnerability” concerns a rather unusual product—a USB charger for rechargeable batteries.

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USB Battery Chargers with Malware?

Spam about diet or weight loss plans have been around for ages now, mostly spreading through email. However, spammed messages recently made their rounds on Twitter, compromising unwitting users’ accounts and spreading via these infected accounts. Compromised Twitter accounts post Tweets that tell their followers to click the shortened link to try out a new diet/weight loss plan.

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Diet Twitter Spam (on the) Run