Cisco routers are deployed in networks around the world and play pivotal roles in small networks as well as global wide area networks (WANs). The stability and security built into a Cisco router are ...

Cisco today announced that every Cisco ASR 9000 router that it has shipped is eligible for an upgrade to a fourth-generation network processor via a new line card. But perhaps the bigger news is that ...

Cisco Systems released patches this week for several vulnerabilities in its IOS software for networking devices and the Cisco and WebEx conferencing servers. The most serious vulnerability affects the ...

Security researchers have found that the firmware for several Cisco small-business routers contains numerous security issues. The problems include hardcoded password hashes as well as static X.509 ...

Government agencies in the U.S. and Japan say that a group known as BlackTech has been observed compromising Cisco routers and installing backdoors for maintaining access. Hackers linked to the People ...

The specific vulnerabilities, detailed on the Security Advisory section of Cisco's corporate web site, includes a denial of service (DOS) vulnerability in Cisco's IOS IP Service Level Agreement ...

Update: Cisco has put up a second blog post addressing a number of the issues brought up here and indicating some changes in policy. A number of Cisco customers woke up this week to find that their ...

Cisco routers are built into the fabric of the Internet and enterprise networks, a fact that makes them highly attractive targets for attackers. Researchers at FireEye have come across attacks ...

Replacing router firmware with poisoned versions is no longer just a theoretical risk. Researchers from Mandiant have detected a real-world attack that has installed rogue firmware on business routers ...

Cisco on Wednesday outlined new details behind its strategy to build next-generation internet technology. As a set up for what it dubs its 'Internet for the Future' strategy, the networking giant ...

Cisco is warning users that a security vulnerability found in a number of its carrier-grade routers is actively being exploited in the wild by cybercriminals. The vulnerability, tracked as ...

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