Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest Cisco cancels Live web conference, Google delays Android Beta, SAP boss voices support for Black Lives Matter Legal02 Jun 2020 | 26
Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack Roundup Plus other news from infosec land this week Security31 May 2020 | 6
Pre-authentication, remote root hole in call-center software? Thanks, Cisco. Just what a long weekend needs Roundup This and more bits and bytes from infosec world Security25 May 2020 | 4
Cisco revenue dips as customers stop spending and supply chain wobbles Company sees good times ahead as pandemic spurs catch-up investment, but also warns of 'market contraction' for servers Networks14 May 2020 |
Bored at home? Cisco has just the thing: A shed-load of security fixes to install, from a Kerberos bypass to crashes Switchzilla issues a whopping 30+ patches in time for the long UK weekend Security07 May 2020 | 3
Lead times double on network cat Arista's hottest selling lines as COVID-19 disrupts supply chain Cisco's switch-slinging nemesis warns of business slipping back to 2018 levels Networks06 May 2020 | 4
Who's still using Webex? Not even Cisco: Judge orders IT giant to use rival Zoom for virtual patent trial It would be rather awkward if Switchzilla's own video-link app fell over mid-proceedings, wouldn't it? Networks29 Apr 2020 | 59
Resistance is futile: Some Cisco security appliances are ticking time bombs of fail thanks to faulty resistors After 18 months, they can just fall over. The fix is asking Borgzilla for a new one Networks29 Apr 2020 | 56
Cisco UCS servers slugged by 'This SSD will self-destruct in 40,000 hours' firmware farrago As Firepower kit hit by rare and ridiculous ‘silkscreen ID flaw’ Networks24 Apr 2020 | 30
Google and Cisco, sitting in a (spanning) tree, cloud N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G Borg SD-WANS can now drive Chocolate Factory virty cloud networks and the workloads therein Networks22 Apr 2020 | 2
Are you fixing that switch? Or setting it up as a Minecraft server? Cisco shows off how you can brick it on a Catalyst 9300 Networks21 Apr 2020 | 26
Open letter to Internet Engineering Task Force: Back off Cisco, not all members want to 'play to your tune' A mini revolution against Switchzilla takes form in a corner of industry group Networks17 Apr 2020 | 6
Cisco rations VPNs for staff as strain of 100,000+ home workers hits its network Following the moon to find capacity and sticking to safe sites as Chuck Robbins leads new weekly briefings Networks02 Apr 2020 | 30
What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion Remember landlines? Cisco service wants you to remember them too, to make dial-in part of your isolation arsenal Networks30 Mar 2020 | 9
California emits latest layoff statistics. March's numbers are ugly. It's 19,000 total, including many in tech Symantec, Cisco, Uber, loathsome Juul, others shed staff amid pandemic On-Prem27 Mar 2020 | 8
Hey, China. Maybe you should have held your hackers off for a bit while COVID-19 ravaged the planet. Just a suggestion Citrix, Cisco and Zoho-pwning APT41 attack wave seems in awfully bad taste Security26 Mar 2020 | 40
IBM fires up the big iron, Facebook hands out masks, Cisco splashes cash, and CDC gets an Azure-powered bot Roundup Everybody chill, Big Tech's got this HPC23 Mar 2020 | 13
What do you not want right now? A bunch of Cisco SD-WAN, Webex vulnerabilities? Here are a bunch of them Switchzilla says remote networking gear has a grab-bag of holes Security19 Mar 2020 | 8
Western Digital hands chief exec seat to boss of Cisco's networking and security biz David Goeckeler finally gets keys to his own kingdom, says he's stoked to ride 'massive wave of new opportunity' Storage06 Mar 2020 | 4
Fella accused of ripping off Cisco, Amazon, iRobot, others to the tune of $2m by fraudulently demanding replacements for tech gear He faces up to, er, 825 years in the clink, $8.25m fine, if convicted Personal Tech04 Mar 2020 | 13
Wi-Fi kit spilling data with bad crypto – Huawei, eh? No, it's Cisco. US giant patches Krook spy-hole bug in network gear Roundup Meanwhile, Sophos finds nasty rootkit, OnlyFans says massive archive not a hack Security02 Mar 2020 | 3
Switchzilla? More like Ditch-your-staff-zilla: Cisco back at the layoffs as revenues shrink Hardware is hard Networks28 Feb 2020 | 15
SecureX gon give it to ya: Cisco muscles into the integrated security game Push to get punters inhaling one cloudy product Networks26 Feb 2020 | 5
Oi, Cisco! Who left the 'high privilege' login for Smart Software Manager just sitting out in the open? Critical fix for static credential headlines latest patch rollout Security19 Feb 2020 | 9
And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight To be fair, all UK cities could benefit from such a scheme... Bootnotes19 Feb 2020 | 109
Cisco: We warned months ago our sales would be a bit glum, we did not disappoint, and don't expect changes soon. PS: We axed Cisco Live Oz The aristocrats! The aristocrats! Networks13 Feb 2020 | 1
'Tens of millions' of Cisco devices vulnerable to CDPwn flaws: Network segmentation blown apart by security bugs Enterprises face fear of phone fragging fest as Doom spawns on IP phones Networks05 Feb 2020 | 22
Cisco Webex bug allowed anyone to join a password-protected meeting Patched vuln was 'in active use', firm reveals Security27 Jan 2020 | 20
Teenagers today. Can't take them anywhere, eh? 18-year-old kid accused of $50m SIM-swap cryptocurrency heist Roundup Also, Cisco, Citrix emit patches, US army advises using Signal OSes25 Jan 2020 | 18
Ding-dong: Cisco delivers your Patch Tuesday warm-up with WebEx, IOS fixes for a few irritating security holes The main event is next week Security10 Jan 2020 | 1
New year, new critical Cisco patches to install – this time for a dirty dozen of bugs that can be exploited to sidestep auth, inject commands, etc Data Center Network Manager bugapalooza with three must-fix flaws Security03 Jan 2020 | 3
Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all... And in the darkness bind them – to next year's IT budgets Networks11 Dec 2019 | 11
Cloud vendors burp after last year's server sales feast, couldn't possibly eat any more Not even a wafer-thin blade? Systems06 Dec 2019 |
EU gets a bit STRESSED out about 5G: With great economic benefits come great security risks Yes, in all-caps Networks04 Dec 2019 | 23
Cisco blasts sueball at 3 ex-employees it claims handed trade secrets over to same rival Two high-level engineers and one managing director accused of stealing from Switchzilla On-Prem19 Nov 2019 | 9
Pemex hit by ransomware, US Postal Service gets a copycat and new WhatsApp bugs Plus, 1Password gets a boatload of cash Security18 Nov 2019 | 1
That chill in the air isn't just autumn, it's Cisco's cooling finances: CEO warns of slipping sales Switchzilla gives gloomy outlook, tells of dark financial days for the coming fiscal year Networks14 Nov 2019 | 9
Hate hub hacked, Cisco bugs squished, Bluekeep attacks begin, and much, much more Roundup Plus, rConfig flaw raises alarms OSes11 Nov 2019 | 10
Imperva cloud firewall pwned, D-Link bug uncovered – plus more Roundup Including: Visual Studio Code debug hole found Security14 Oct 2019 | 2
I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website Switchzilla's online presence beset by mysterious outages Networks11 Oct 2019 | 27
Life's certainties: Death, taxes, and Cisco patching more serious vulnerabilities Switchzilla closes off 18 CVE-listed holes, get to work Security04 Oct 2019 | 7
Cisco helps ease blight of tourism on Orkney's Wi-Fi hotspot network thanks to £4.3m grant *grumble* Coming over here... hogging our internets *groan* Networks27 Sep 2019 | 5
Four words from Cisco to strike fear into the most hardened techies: Guest account as root Now is a very good time to patch your estate Security26 Sep 2019 | 27
JACK OF ALL TIRADES: Twitter boss loses account to cunning foul-mouthed pranksters Roundup Plus a Cisco bug, dentists bitten by malware, and France takes down a worm Security31 Aug 2019 | 14
The Joy of Six... critical security patches: Cisco small biz switches open to hijacking via web UI Plus UCS and other gear need updates Security22 Aug 2019 | 3
Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning Small percentage of workforce but sign of the times Networks15 Aug 2019 | 30
Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors Stock price dives as Wall St learns of trouble overseas and weak outlook Networks15 Aug 2019 | 58
Your mid-week infosec news bonanza: Cisco bugs, VMware-Nvidia guest escapes, KDE hijacking, and more Roundup Including: Microsoft spins up Azure security lab, offers more bug bounty cash Security07 Aug 2019 | 3
LAPD loses job applicant details, Project Zero pokes holes in iOS, AWS S3 whack-a-mole continues, and more Roundup Plus, Cisco patches up router pwnage vulnerability Security05 Aug 2019 | 14
Networking giant in hot water for selling US govt buggy spy kit? Huawei again? No, it's Cisco American tech giant coughs up $9m for shipping vulnerable crates of crap to Uncle Sam Networks01 Aug 2019 | 21
Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech It is but WAF-er thin... – report Security22 Jul 2019 | 1
Big Switch to Big Photon for Cisco: Switchzilla to splurge $2.6bn on Acacia All aboard for 'siliconisation of optical interconnect' Networks10 Jul 2019 |
Cisco delivers Patch Tuesday warmup with bundle of 18 bug fixes Unified Comms, Jabber among targets for clean-up Security05 Jul 2019 | 4
Cisco cleans up critical flaws, Florida city forks out $600k to ransomware scumbags, and more from infosec land Roundup Your quick guide to what else has been happening in computer security lately Security24 Jun 2019 | 7
Good heavens, is it time to patch Cisco kit again? Prime Infrastructure root privileges hole plugged Do the thing ASAP, you know how it works by now Security17 May 2019 | 9
China trade tariffs? Fuhgeddaboudit, say Cisco execs. We, er, shifted some production Switchzilla takes slow boat from Middle Kingdom amid Prez Trump's latest hike On-Prem16 May 2019 | 37
It's 2019 so now security vulnerabilities are branded using emojis: Meet Thrangrycat, a Cisco router secure boot flaw That's how you pronounce 😾😾😾: A means to bury spyware deep inside pwned networking gear Security13 May 2019 | 37
Baltimore hit with more ransomware, ChinaMobile gets the boot in the US, and another (mild) Systemd system-d'oh! Roundup Plus, Diachenko strikes again with Indian data find Security13 May 2019 | 11
Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it's Cisco again Better ban this gear from non-US core networks, right? Security02 May 2019 | 149
Switchzilla rolls out Wi-Fi 6 kit: New access points, switch for a standard that hasn't officially arrived Snitches get switches, apparently - as 802.11ax(ed) and sexy 6 moniker stitched Networks29 Apr 2019 | 16
Dell EMC and Cisco renew their vows as converged offspring VxBlock turns 10 Yes, converged infrastructure model is still a thing On-Prem23 Apr 2019 | 2
Cisco whispers the three little words to really get an ASR 9000 net admin's blood pumping: Remote unauthenticated access Critical patch available now for those with vulnerable kit Networks18 Apr 2019 | 8