It seems that fans around the world are not the only ones who are hooked on the Oscars .

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Oscars 2010 Awards Users with FAKEAV

More than 60 websites have been found to be hotbeds for SEO poisoning. Each of these domains host hundreds of possible matches for search keys. Also, the topics in one domain overlap with that of the other domain, thus making it possible that they will both emerge in the search results

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60+ Compromised Sites with SEO Poisoning

Less than a month after the so-called “Iranian Cyber Army” reportedly “hacked” the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter , they are back with another attack, this time against another Internet giant, Baidu. Baidu is the China’s most popular search engine, as 62 percent of the total number of Web searches in China are done compared with Google’s 29 percent share, according to research firm Analysys International. Some days ago, users who tried to access Baidu were instead redirected to the following page: According to Trend Micro Advanced Threat Researcher Paul Ferguson, this attack was not a defacement

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Iranian “Cyber Army” Strikes at China’s Search Engine Giant, Chinese Hackers Retaliate

The first signs of New Year malware for this year were already sighted a while back, but the current one we’re seeing in circulation wishes “Happy New Year 2010″ and points to a fast flux domain site which serves up Trojan-Downloader:W32/Agent.MUG.

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It’s almost 2010, yearly round of new year related malware is going on.

We have recently learned of yet another zero-day exploit in Adobe Acrobat . This time it’s an overflow for a special type parameter in a function provided by the multimedia.api plugin that can be manipulated from JavaScript in the following manner: media.newPlayer(null)

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New Adobe Acrobat Zero-Day

BREDOLAB set out on a spam rerun just in time for the holidays. This recent run is similar to the laptop delivery note spam run we reported in August. This time, however, the spammed message appears to have come from known courier, DHL

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BREDOLAB Regifts Old Spam

I recently took a sudden and unexpected trip to Norway. During my time there I needed to quickly update my family and friends as to my situation. How does one do that when one’s family and friends span the globe?

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"You are signing in from an unfamiliar location."

It seems like most people who have gone to watch the Michael Jackson This Is It movie have told me that it is really worth watching. However, we are not too sure if Michael Jackson’s Official Website at http://www.michaeljackson.com is actually worth visiting now. Well, it turned up on our systems, which indicate that some of the child pages have been compromised with malicious scripts

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This Is It!

Very often security budgets are justified through risk management, closely related to loss avoidance or boosting the bottom-line (income after expenses). A security manager might say to the CIO, ” If we spend $X on Y, we’ll reduce risk of loss of $A by B%, resulting in an estimated $C financial upside for our organization.

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Outsourcing and Top-Line Security Budget Justification

Update: 09.03.2009 : ” Production-Safe Website Scanning Questionnaire ” posted to add context to the chart and ensuing discussion. Also, new vendors have been added to the sheet. Update 08.24.2009 : Billy Hoffman (HP) and I have been having some email dialog about the production-safe heading

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Website VA Vendor Comparison Chart