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Sometimes, events conspire to focus the mind. The happenings of the past month fall into this category. It started when Dell and Apple were forced into an expensive recall of millions of laptop batteries after the evidence that they were liable to cause fires became overwhelming. Predictions, like fog, are hard to get your arms around, but here is one that will prove more than just a mere exercise in prophesizing: The next wave of security threats will be targeted attacks aimed at specific organizations or individuals within enterprises. Cisco Systems has asked users of its CallManager VoIP software to install patches correcting two flaws. Israel-Lebanon conflict goes online; Google adds malware warnings. The chairman of the Information Security Forum has big plans to take his message to businesses everywhere. Ron Condon reports. With so much money being moved online these days, cyber criminals are getting greedy - and smarter. Mark Mayne asks the experts for advice. Black Hat wrapped up on Thursday after several days of vulnerability revelations that proved that the event hasn't lost its edge even as attendance skewed more heavily toward security professionals rather than hackers this year. While threats against Macintosh operating systems are becoming more common, IT managers and researchers attending the Black Hat conference this week in Las Vegas said, by far, that they're still concerned with security on PCs running Microsoft Windows operating systems. A leading penetration testing vendor announced today that it found three vulnerabilities that put enterprise telephone infrastructure critically at risk. China has moved to block internet users in that country from using Skype, the popular Voice over IP (VoIP) application. Just as consumers have learned to protect their identities online from phishers, they are facing a new VoIP-enabled telephone scam based on the same principals, experts reported this week. Are intrusion prevention systems worth the effort of managing them? Or can you get away with a good firewall? Rob Buckley investigates Researchers with Internet Security Systems' (ISS) X-Force announced last week that it discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the highly-popular WebEx conferencing software. U.K. businesses are failing to adopt the security controls needed to protect customers' information, according to the 2006 Department of Trade and Industry's biennial Information Security Breaches Survey. Compliance issues and identity theft incidents may have dominated 2005, but other problems will unfold over coming months. Three-quarters of U.K. businesses rate security as a high or very high priority for their senior management or board of directors, according to the latest government-sponsored survey of breaches in the U.K. released at Infosec London. For many organizations, instant messaging (IM) and other peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have become instant headaches. Employees using VoIP, IM, email and the internet most gung-ho. Ma Bell, meet your precocious newborn, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The technology, just a few years old, is growing up fast as enterprises and home users abandon traditional telephone lines so they can converge voice and data communication onto one network — while significantly cutting costs in the process.