| Top 6 Cisco acquisitions of 2007; what it should buy in 2008
Cisco made 11 acquisitions this year culminating in 126 purchases since Cisco's birth. It made three more acquisitions than it did last year, when it spent a measly $256 million buying ho-hum technologies. This year was different, not only in the sheer dollar size of some acquisitions, but also because of the breadth of technologies it acquired. Spam flood hit '07 high in November, says Symantec
Spam surged to 72% of overall e-mail traffic monitored by Symantec in November, the highest percentage for any month this year, according to Symantec’s monthly “State of Spam Report.” DNS attack could signal Phishing 2.0
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet. Cisco demos ways to expand TelePresence
Cisco is expanding the reach of its TelePresence technology by demonstrating how carriers can support secure business-to-business conferences and separately by showing Cisco support for lower quality, traditional videoconferencing gear in its high- ... Private customer data vulnerable during application testing
Sixty-two percent of companies surveyed by the Ponemon Institute report that during the application development and testing process, they use real customer data-including employee, vendor and customer records, and credit card and Social Security numbers-instead of disguised data to test applications. Two wireless LANs better than one, Carnegie Mellon says
Instead of one WLAN vendor, Carnegie Mellon University chose two for its campus-wide 802.11n wireless network. MSN puts ads on mobile phones
Microsoft began displaying advertisements to mobile users of its MSN site in the U.S. on Monday. New tool finds race conditions in multithreaded apps
Coverity, a company that specializes in detecting coding flaws in software, has added a new feature to one of its products that finds ... Fancy dress cops rob London data center
A data center in central London, reportedly belonging to Verizon Business, has been robbed by thieves dressed as policemen. Oops! Skype forgets to tell users of bug or patch job
Skype Monday blamed an "unintentional communication oversight" for not notifying users a month ago that it had patched the Windows version of its VoIP client software against a critical bug. | 
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