Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
Arista sees Ethernet as the scale-up networking fabric of choice for AI and continues to build up its alternative to proprietary interconnects such as Nvidia’s NVLink technology. This week, Arista rolled out new Ethernet reference architectures as well as a raft of integration partnerships with industry players—including AMD, Arm, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, and Qualcomm—aimed at helping large ente…
Take a Network Break! We startup with follow-up on global tech news coverage and pronunciations, then pivot to Red Alerts about Dell Container Storage and SonicWall. This week’s ne…
A flaw in VeloCloud Orchestrator enables attackers to access the platform organizations use to manage their VeloCloud SD-WAN subscriptions and the edge devices it controls. Aris…
Arista Networks has released security patches for a zero-day flaw that is being actively exploited and affects VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments. [...]
Remote attackers could trigger the critical-severity flaw to access privileged internal functionality. The post Arista Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited VCO Zero-Day appeared f…
Attackers are exploiting a new flaw in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the server that manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SD-WAN, Arista said on September 22. The f…
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista’s vulnerability reporting, and Cisco ISE takes center stage for our Red Alert. Then we dive into EVA Networks, a st…
Take a Network Break! We begin with follow-up on the Cisco/Teleport deal and Chinese models on US public clouds. Our Red Alert warns of two critical vulnerabilities in HPE’s Aruba …
Arista Networks has taken the unusual step of warning customers that next week, it will release multiple security advisories affecting Arista EOS and VeloCloud. AI-driven changes t…
Take a Network Break! Cisco takes center stage in our Red Alert after the network giant discovered a bunch of high-severity bugs in its Catalyst SD-WAN platform. It has rolled out …
Arista Networks shared some good news about its earnings and future directions during its second-quarter earnings call this week. For starters, Arista reported its first-ever $3…
Arista has patched a VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) security hole that has been actively leveraged in the wild, one that the vendor says “may allow a remote attacker to access privil…
Unauthenticated command injection scores perfect 10 and may expose managed Edge devices
Impacting on-premises deployments, the OS command injection allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality. The post Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerabil…
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked a…
Arista has patched a maximum-severity command injection vulnerability in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator deployments that is being actively exploited in attacks. [...]
Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news. Arista catches up to the rest of the market on a “branc…
Arista Networks is looking to simplify data protection at the edge of enterprise networks with a new security package that combines branch office security with SD-WAN connectivity …
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry, including OS command injection and authentication bypass, for which patches are now available.…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports …
Organizations are advised to apply vendor-supplied mitigations or discontinue the vulnerable devices. The post No Patch Planned for Exploited Arista EOS Vulnerability appeared firs…
Arista Networks has taken the wraps off its 7060XE7 Series, a new portfolio of 1.6T networking platforms designed to provide the foundation for rack-scale AI infrastructure. Th…
It’s mostly good news for Arista Networks, which reported total first-quarter revenue of $2.71 billion, up 35.1% compared to the year-ago quarter. The vendor raised its forecasted …
Enterprise companies looking to build or upgrade their data center switches, or even get technical support, best be prepared to wait in line behind AI-first providers that are chew…
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has been ripping out its 100-gigabit links and replacing them with 400-gigabit links because AI has changed how traffic flows inside their data cen…