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Microsoft's has discovered some interesting new trends in cybercrime. The firm's Research Unit, which has just released its six-monthly Security Intelligence Report, found that the number of attacks designed to steal personal information had risen, as had cases of theft through social engineering. A sharp-eyed user of Microsoft's Virtual Earth has found images of classified US Navy technology. Microsoft is looking into reports of a flaw in Office 2000 disclosed as part of the Month of ActiveX Bugs (MoAxB) project. Cisco released three security advisories on Wednesday for severe vulnerabilities in its Internetwork Operating System software (IOS), the most serious of which could allow remote arbitrary code execution. A highly-critical vulnerability in Mac OS X that can be exploited to compromise users' systems was disclosed on Thursday. Cisco Systems has reported multiple privilege-escalation vulnerabilities affecting the networking giant's Clean Access software solution. In the lead up to next month’s conference, Gartner’s local security analyst reveals data security and cloud computing will be hot topics at this year’s Security Summit. When researcher Dan Kaminsky reveals details behind the major DNS protocol vulnerability next month at Black Hat, it may not be such a surprise anymore. While data loss and data leakage continue to have a significant effect on Australian organisations, new research reveals that organisations are not doing enough to combat the threat. Millions of applications are installed on company networks each day without the permission of the IT department. These pieces of software are known as ‘Greynets’. They are multiplying constantly and, with many remaining unknown to the IT team and others difficult to locate, are damaging network performance, distracting staff, and creating a hole in network defences. Forthcoming report from IronPort reveals worrying trends Conference organiser reveals the hot topics and speakers at Australia’s premier security conference which kicks off next week. The Storm botnet decreased to just five per cent of its original size during April, but overall web-based malware levels increased by 23.3 per cent, new monitoring data reveals. People are annoyed over the loss or theft of their personal information, a new survey from the Ponemon Institute reveals. TippingPoint announced Monday that it has more than 29 different vulnerabilities that it is working on with manufacturers to resolve before publicly disclosing them. Most legitimate websites average seven vulnerabilities, with nine out of 10 containing serious flaws that hackers can exploit, the latest WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report reveals. Spam originating from popular webmail services are spiking now that spammers have found ways to evade the challenge-response requirements for opening an account, a new study from email security firm MessageLabs reveals. Spam levels reached 97.02 percent in December 2007 and viruses accounted for 0.11 percent of email traffic, new monitoring data reveals.. The fourth annual Gartner IT Security Summit kicks off this month and SC met with Andrew Walls, Gartner's local security analyst, for a sneak peak at the event's hot topics. The youthful president and CEO of Veracode tells Paul Fisher why SaaS is the only way forward for vulnerability scanning.