Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
Cisco Live 2026 is in the books, and it was “prove it” time for a promise made 24 months ago. At Cisco’s 2024 event, Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said that Cisco would be unrecognizable as a company—in a positive way—in two years. The innovation payload at the event suggests he has largely delivered on that pledge. Cisco is repositioning itself from a holding company of products and dashboard…
Cisco is in the years-long process of shifting from a hardware-centric business focused on switches and routers toward a broader software and services strategy, aiming to position …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports …
While hyperscalers and neo-cloud providers may get the lion’s share of attention for providing AI infrastructure, many enterprises are taking a build-it-themselves approach to meet…
Cisco warns customers of an actively exploited high-severity vulnerability in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, an enterprise network management system that has been targeted by hackers mul…
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a critical Android vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation to root. On the news front, we dig into Cloud Control, Cis…
Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Akamai, Check Point, Cisco, Cyera, Dragos, WatchGuard and Zscaler. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 26 Deals Announced in May 20…
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a C…
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When several database clusters started failing simultaneously, Cisco IT had all the data it needed to diagnose the problem. The signals were there. Engineers saw them. The issue wa…
On Thursday, Cisco warned of a high-severity, unpatched zero-day in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (tracked as CVE-2026-20245) actively exploited in attacks enabling root privil…
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20245 and it can allow arbitrary command execution as root, but no patch yet. The post Cisco Warns of 7th SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in 2026…
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator,…
Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root. It is tracked…
Cisco has released security updates to patch a critical-severity Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) flaw that allows attackers to gain root privileges. [...]
The high-severity flaw can be exploited remotely, without authentication, in server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The post Cisco Warns of Available PoC for Critical Unified …
Particle entanglement, superposition and teleportation are key concepts in quantum physics. Einstein famously dismissed such phenomena as “spooky action at a distance.” Quantum …
A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of Cisco Webex Meetings could have allowed an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Cisco…
A vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) could allow an unauthentic…
A vulnerability in Cisco Finesse could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to load arbitrary files from remote locations into an active user session on an affected device, po…
As is typical of Cisco, the company made several product announcements at its flagship event, Cisco Live. The most significant product announcement is Cisco Cloud Control, which re…
Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing
For much of the past decade, enterprise networking was something the industry tried to abstract away. Cloud-first architectures commoditized switching and routing, burying them und…
Cisco built the networking infrastructure that underpins the internet and the cloud. At Cisco Live this week, the company is making its case to hold that same position as enterpris…
Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup and a red alert affecting ScadaBR, an open source SCADA controller. On the news front, Forward adds predictive testing to its…
Enterprises deploying closed AI models have generally relied on published safety benchmarks to assess risk before procurement and deployment decisions. New research from Cisco’s AI…
Hardened version of open-source NOS coming to Nexus 9000s
Cisco is revamping its flagship Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification for the first time in seven years, adding a new AI literacy pillar, more hands-on lab require…
AI agents generate up to 450% more network traffic than humans can, and they’re beginning to reshape network traffic patterns in measurable ways. Enterprise network traffic wit…
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