Re: Surprise!
“Why is it that when we see the word "exploit" or the phrase "security problems/issues", the article is always about Microsoft.”
Yep totally right, for instance these 16 (is that enough?) links from this site illustrate your point perfectly.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/fooling_the_appstore_one_codechunk_at_a_time/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/08/linux_banking_trojan/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/09/android_sig_vuln_exploit_seen_in_the_wild/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/fbi_staff_admit_hacking_android/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/20/apple_java_omnishambles/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/01/google_glass_security_nightmare/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/android_sig_vuln_analysis/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/07/baseband_processor_mobile_hack_threat/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/21/iphonedevsdk_hack_involvement/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/21/android_nfc/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/22/master_key_doctored_apps_google_play/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/17/google_glass_qr_exploit/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/30/cloud_based_web_browser_exploits/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/19/instagram_android_sms_trojan/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/23/mystery_chrome_0_day/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/26/samsung_remote_wipe_app_fix/