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As we put the festivities behind us and fix our sights firmly on the year ahead, those criminal gangs involved in the nefarious activities of spam creation, phishing and virus attacks continue to engage new tactics that will take advantage of our relaxed, less cautious frame of mind. The new year is supposed to signal a fresh start for us all, but web threats will continue to reign in 2008, wreaking havoc just as they did this year Google has halted the spread of a worm on its social networking website, Orkut, but not before the self-replicating script reportedly spread to more than 400,000 member profiles. Australian-owned professional services company, Datacom will head SurfControl's service operations in South East Asia. Cisco on Wednesday released advisories for flaws in Cisco Security Agent for Windows and CiscoWorks Server. Attackers have hijacked banner advertisements on ESPN’s popular sports site, soccernet.com with fake ads purporting to be from skyauction.com in an attempt to lure visitors to download malware. A just discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's FTP client can allow a malicious user to crash the application via a malware-laced social engineering attack. Symantec today released its top ten security trends for 2007 listing data leakage, Windows Vista, and spam as the top three dominant security issues. AVG’s global security strategist sounded his horn during his visit to Sydney this week warning Australians about the growth of web-based threats - the cybercriminal activity of embedding invisible executable malware on popular websites. Data breaches caused by lost laptops and unsecured USB memory sticks are "everyday incidents", according to one memory vendor.. Italian authorities are holding the founder of WabiSabiLabi, an eBay-like online marketplace for buying and selling zero-day vulnerabilities. Webster defines security as, "the quality or state of being free from risk of loss and that measures [are] taken to guard against espionage or sabotage, crime, attack or escape." At the end of the financial year it is vital to have easy access to your data.. Microsoft’s new Vista operating system has placed more emphasis on security than any previous version of Windows. Whitepages online and Bigpond have been forced to remove banner ads purporting to be from Skyauction.com after a security professional discovered hackers had embedded malware on the ads which redirected users to unsolicited websites. Printer giant launches HP Secure Print Advantage package ManageFusion event offers update on rationalisation between two product lines Adobe disclosed a vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat products that can be exploited by remote attackers using malicious PDF documents. IT security professionals have an almost equal preference for deploying open source or commercial software, according to research by security firm Barracuda Networks. Sourcefire’s founder and CTO Martin Roesch speaks to SC Magazine about the open-source security vendor’s expansion into the Australian market and the company's future plans.