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Left is right and up is down in the first batch of official photos from The CW’s upcoming Arrowverse crossover event, subtitled “Elseworlds.” In this year’s three-night, Legends-less crossover — airing Sunday, Dec. 9 through Tuesday, Dec. 11, comprised of the ninth episodes of The Flash (airing on a special night), Arrow and Supergirl (airing on a special night) — Arkham […]
REUTERS/Mike Blake Amazon says it will not produce its own networking switches, contradicting a recent report. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy talked it over on the phone directly, says a Cisco spokesperson. Cisco stock shot up about 3% after the denial. Amazon Web Services, the retailer’s cloud computing business, has officially […]
(Reuters) — Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centers in Iran where they left the image of a U.S. flag on screens along with a warning: “Don’t mess with our elections”, the Iranian IT ministry said on Saturday. “The attack apparently affected 200,000 router switches across the world in a widespread […]
Unknown hackers have exploited a loophole in the Cisco protocol to strike internet service providers worldwide, in a coordinated attack against data centers, leaving a US flag and a message reading “Don’t mess with our elections.” Iranian data centers became some of the latest victims of the global bot attack late on Friday. Disabling router […]
Enlarge (credit: Cisco) Hackers are actively trying to exploit a high-severity vulnerability in widely used Cisco networking software that can give complete control over protected networks and access to all traffic passing over them, the company has warned. When Cisco officials disclosed the bug last week in a range of Adaptive Security Appliance products, they […]
Enlarge (credit: US Air Force) On January 29, Cisco released a high-urgency security alert for customers using network security devices and software that support virtual private network connections to corporate networks. Firewalls, security appliances, and other devices configured with WebVPN clientless VPN software are vulnerable to a Web-based network attack that could bypass the devices’ […]
Thomson Reuters On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it will share “cybercrime” data with the international police network Interpol. The data includes information and analysis about security threats that Cisco already aggregates through an existing research arm, Cisco Talos. The company said it won’t share information about customer vulnerabilities. It’s a warm nod to law enforcement in an industry that […]
Networking giant Cisco has announced plans to pay out $ 1.9 billion to acquire Broadsoft, a Maryland-based cloud communications company that creates software for PBX systems, team collaboration, and other related enterprise products. Though Cisco is better known for its data center and networking hardware, the company has long intimated its intentions to transition into a software […]
Networking giant Cisco has announced plans to acquire hyperconvergence software company Springpath in a deal worth $ 320 million. Founded out of Sunnyvale, California as Storvisor back in 2012, the company launched out of stealth three years later as Springpath. Cisco actually led Springpath’s $ 34 million series C funding round in 2015, and the […]
(Reuters) — Cisco’s quarterly revenue in its closely-watched security business missed analysts’ estimates, raising concerns about the world’s largest networking gear maker’s efforts to transform into a software-focused company. The company’s shares fell about 2.5 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday. With its traditional business of making switches and routers struggling, Cisco, like other legacy […]
