The IRB (Inland Revenue Board), Malaysia has warned citizens about phishing e-mails purporting to promise tax reimbursements, as starting July 21, 2010 there've been reports of 217 such cases from people who paid taxes.

Mary Herrera's (Mexico Secretary of State) office had been victimized to computer system attacks during the last four months, including a virus that directs links to pornographic websites into a computer, as reported by newswest9 on August 18, 2010.

Adobe, recently, in an out-of-band cycle, has issued security patches for Acrobat and Reader fixing bugs that were disclosed in July 2010 during the then Black Hat security conference. Labeling the update as "critical," Adobe suggests that users of all affected systems apply it immediately.

According to APAC the Anti-Phishing Alliance of China, by the time July 2010 ended, there were 19,817 incidences associated with phishing websites reported to it, with e-commerce websites, spoofed the most. Moreover, the alliance said that it dealt with nearly 19,700 reports.