| Cisco 2007 security strides Cisco security expert Jamey Heary's list of top 5 coolest security features/products released by Cisco in '07. FTC charges payment company in $200M fraud, 12/12/07 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against a payment processing company, accusing it of attempting to debit consumers' bank accounts for up to $200 million on behalf of dishonest merchants. Crypto firm snaps up storage security products at fire sale, 12/12/2007 Cryptography specialist nCipher Tuesday said it has acquired a substantial portion of the product assets of financially distressed storage security ... Energy companies face costly upgrades to secure electric grid, 12/10/07 In an effort to improve security in the nation’s electric power grid, the Washington-based Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is poised to issue new rules to compel energy companies to use practices such as patch management and strong authentication to secure their industrial control systems against attackers, sabotage and unauthorized use. Ask.com allows users to erase search queries, 12/12/07 In what's likely to be seen as a privacy-friendly move, IAC Search & Media's Ask.com search engine Tuesday announced a new feature called AskEraser that deletes a user's search activity data from the company's servers. KoolSpan card can secure cell calls, 12/11/07 KoolSpan says it can provide end-to-end encryption for cell phone calls made over public wireless networks using a microSD card it is expected to ship early next year. Spam flood hit '07 high in November, says Symantec, 12/11/07 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.” Facebook, ID fraud and the dark side of the Web, 12/11/07 In a year that has seen bullying in blogs, pedophiles on MySpace and an ongoing privacy backlash against Facebook, it was appropriate that this year's Le Web 3 conference started Tuesday with a panel discussion about the "dark side" of Web 2.0. | 
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