By attacking a loophole in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program it has rewritten laws of virus prevention and punched a big hole in PC users security systems that others can drive through.
And for San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout, it may also be the year when the idea of going up against PC-focused security giants like McAfee and Symantec no longer seemed quite so insane.
Now many, many new network installations are using Power-Over-Ethernet so you can run a phone, you can run a PC, a security camera all over these blue wires.