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Secure Computing kicked-off the 'Paul Henry seminar series introducing Scott Montgomery' in Sydney yesterday where IT security professionals were treated to a candid session of insights in the security space and emerging trends. The Web is now a participatory medium. The downside to this ubiquitous connectivity and user participation is a new slew of security threats many IT professionals have yet to fully grasp. A new wave of "3D screensaver" spam is directing recipients to a malware site from a notorious malware gang that had ceased activity in January after their site was attack by a rival group of cybercriminals, researchers at Sunbelt reported. There are other things more depressing than lacking a date for Valentine's Day. For starters, how about getting stung by a trojan disguised as an e-card celebrating the annual romantic holiday? BitDefender has boosted the functionality of its free Online Scanner adding antispyware technologies, the security vendor announced today. A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined 1,100 euro (A$1,829) for launching a wave of DoS attacks against key websites in Estonia, including the site for the political party of Estonia's prime minister, in April and May of last year. The Super Bowl presents a ripe target for cybercriminals intent on maximising the impact of their scams, and the biggest question at this time - aside from which team will win the big game - is what form these attacks will take. A Valentine's day storm is brewing early, warns anti-virus vendor, PC Tools. The holiday blitz from the perpetrators of the Storm Worm, which began with fake Christmas messages last month, has continued unabated as a spate of false New Year's greetings have been delivered by the notorious botnet, researchers reported this week. Researchers at anti-virus vendor F-Secure have noted a 100-percent increase over last year in the amount of malware detected during 2007. The FBI has claimed that the second phase of 'Operation Bot Roast' has uncovered $20m in illegal activity and led to eight arrests. One of the world's most reputed spammers, who used his botnet army to deliver up to billions of junk emails each day, was indicted Wednesday in a US District Court in Seattle. Researchers at Marshal, an internet security firm, are tracking a new spam campaign in which recipients receive messages inviting them to join MySpace – but a click on the link leads them to a bogus page containing malware disguised as an Adobe update. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. TOP 5 CYBERATTACKS:

1. The Storm Worm
What began as an email-spawned trojan attack using fake news stories to lure victims became the most widespread cyber-assault in recent memory. Still replicating, and exploiting a number of patched vulnerabilities, the botnet-fueled, socially engineered attack may make next year's list as well. Security firms Trend Micro and Crossbeam Systems have joined forces to introduce Next Generation Content Gateway (NGCG) web threat protection for large networks.. Apple's iPhone will be a "primary target" for cybercriminals in 2008, a security company predicted today.. The U.S. House of Representatives is unlikely to take up a tough identity theft law passed by the Senate last month before considering a broader measure proposed by the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, a committee counsel has told SCMagazineUS.com. The cybercrime market is poised to be even ‘hotter’ in 2008 as spammers increase targeted attacks and create new social engineering techniques to claim their stake in cybercrime’s US$105 billion market. Some 250,000 computer users, who likely never knew their machines had been seeded with the notorious Storm Worm virus, received confirmation this week when a pop-up stock spam message appeared on their desktops.