Microsoft has issued a smaller report to summarize the mammoth 160-page bi-annual Security Intelligence Report (Volume 20) released at the start of May.
The company's security personnel has sifted through the entire report and extracted ten key points that they believe are to be this year's top cyber-security trends.
A rise in more severe vulnerabilities
Microsoft says that, during the past three years, the numbers of security bugs didn't only go up, they became more severe.
The company's experts add that, in 2015, 41.8 percent of all vulnerability disclosures were given a severe mark, a trend that's bound to continue as more and more IoT devices are analyzed.
Java exploitation is dying
Microsoft says that crooks moved on from exploiting Java flaws. The reason behind this may be Oracle's addition of a security feature called Click2Play, which has made it very hard to exploit Java objects automatically.
