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We all dream of being our own boss, but what does it take to set up a successful business in the real world? Mark Mayne has some advice. Microsoft has warned users to be vigilant after the discovery of a series of attacks on Office.. As big business finally gets a hold on security, SMEs relying on off-the-shelf e-commerce tools are easy prey. There are plenty of tools around to make infosec professionals' life easier. But how do you find the right ones? Barry Mansfield reports. In this SC Magazine online exclusive, Mark Mayne questions Panda Security's CEO, Jorge Dinares. Attempted cyberattacks on health care organisations have increased 85 percent in the past year, according to SecureWorks, a software-as-a-service vendor. Spammers have developed bots that are capable of signing up and creating random accounts on Microsoft's Windows Live Mail service, according to security researchers at Websense. Researchers at eEye Digital Security have discovered malware with both botnet and worm characteristics that targets Symantec anti-virus software, not Microsoft applications. Hackers are trying to infect users of the social networking site Orkut with malware in order to steal their bank details. Security teams have discovered a new instant messenger (IM)-based phishing attack aimed at stealing the account information of users of the popular social networking site MySpace. Users of the popular role-playing game "World of Warcraft" are the target of a new trojan that aims to steal gamers’ passwords. Mac OS X and Mozilla Firefox – widely considered safer than mainstream counterpart Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) – are rapidly becoming new sources for vulnerabilities, according to the latest SANS Institute Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities report. A new spear phishing attack is targeting the email accounts of US university students. For all the hype about the relative security of the two most popular browsers, is Firefox really any more secure than Internet Explorer? For that matter, is it even possible, as a British company with a “zero-footprint” browser claims, to develop a truly secure browser? Hackers have launched a website which allows users to construct phishing pages for social networking and webmail sites.. PayPal has agreed to acquire Fraud Sciences, a vendor of online transaction-verification tools. Security researchers have warned that malware-laced fake Super Bowl websites have begun appearing, the first wave of what is expected to be a major campaign of game-related cyberattacks. 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. Hackers were able to infiltrate an overseas power grid to knock out the lights for several international cities, a CIA analyst told attendees at a SANS Institute conference in New Orleans. An aggressive, non-stop campaign by China to penetrate key government and industry databases in the United States already has succeeded and the United States urgently needs to monitor all internet traffic to critical government and private-sector networks “to find the enemy within,” SANS Institute Director of Research Alan Paller told SCMagazineUS.com.