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Cisco warns of security holes in its security appliances

Bugs potentially useful for rogue insiders, admin account hijackers

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Wed 22 Jun 2022 // 20:16 UTC

Cisco has alerted customers to another four vulnerabilities in its products, including a high-severity flaw in its email and web security appliances.
The networking giant has issued a patch for that bug, tracked as CVE-2022-20664. The flaw is present in the web management interface of Cisco's Secure Email and Web Manager and Email Security Appliance in both the virtual and hardware appliances. Some earlier versions of both products, we note, have reached end of life, and so the manufacturer won't release fixes; it instead told customers to migrate to a newer version and dump the old.
This bug received a 7.7 out of 10 CVSS severity score, and Cisco noted that its security team is not aware of any in-the-wild exploitation, so far. That said, given the speed of reverse engineering, that day is likely to come.

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Cisco compresses Catalyst switches to compact size

Fanless fun for the whole family (if the supply chain functions)

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Tue 28 Jun 2022 // 06:58 UTC

Cisco has shrunk its Catalyst 9200 switches into three compact models.
Switchzilla reckons they exercise the newfound freedom to undertake remote work by letting organizations squeeze a proper enterprise switch into a wider variety of smaller and more exotic places.
The smallest of the models measures 4.4cm x 26.9cm x 16.5cm, and the other two add a little depth to emerge at 4.4cm x 26.9cm x 24.4cm. All are fanless, leading Cisco to suggest you bolt them under desks, nail them to walls, or even slide one into a home office.

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5G C-band rollout at US airports slowed over radio altimeter safety fears

Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023

Brandon Vigliarolo Mon 27 Jun 2022 // 21:00 UTC

America's aviation watchdog has said the rollout of 5G C-band coverage near US airports won't fully start until next year, delaying some travelers' access to better cellular broadband at crowded terminals.
Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen said in a statement this month that its discussions with wireless carriers "have identified a path that will continue to enable aviation and 5G C-band wireless to safely co-exist."
5G C-band operates between 3.7-3.98GHz, near the 4.2-4.4GHz band used by radio altimeters that are jolly useful for landing planes in limited visibility. There is or was a fear that these cellular signals, such as from cell towers close to airports, could bleed into the frequencies used by aircraft and cause radio altimeters to display an incorrect reading. C-band technology, which promises faster mobile broadband, was supposed to roll out nationwide on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile US's networks, but some deployments have been paused near airports due to these concerns.

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Cisco quits Moscow

Networking titan to shutter Russia and Belarus presence, after previously stopping operations

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Fri 24 Jun 2022 // 05:45 UTC

Cisco has decided it's time to leave Russia and Belarus, almost four months after stopping operations in response to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
The networking giant announced it would halt operations in Russia and Belarus "for the foreseeable future" on March 3 this year.
A June 23 update suggests Cisco sees no future in either nation.

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SpaceX: 5G expansion could kill US Starlink broadband

It would be easier to take this complaint seriously if Elon wasn't so Elon

Brandon Vigliarolo Thu 23 Jun 2022 // 21:21 UTC

If the proposed addition of the 12GHz spectrum to 5G goes forward, Starlink broadband terminals across America could be crippled, or so SpaceX has complained.
The Elon Musk biz made the claim [PDF] this week in a filing to the FCC, which is considering allowing Dish to operate a 5G service in the 12GHz band (12.2-12.7GHz). This frequency range is also used by Starlink and others to provide over-the-air satellite internet connectivity.
SpaceX said its own in-house study, conducted in Las Vegas, showed "harmful interference from terrestrial mobile service to SpaceX's Starlink terminals … more than 77 percent of the time, resulting in full outages 74 percent of the time." It also claimed the interference will extend to a minimum of 13 miles from base stations. In other words, if Dish gets to use these frequencies in the US, it'll render nearby Starlink terminals useless through wireless interference, it was claimed.

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Microsoft plans to dig through your Edge Collections to make suggestions

Updates inbound to that browser you use to download a different browser

Richard Speed Thu 30 Jun 2022 // 12:30 UTC

Microsoft's Chromium-powered Edge browser will soon include an "Inspiration feed" among new features and changes that include tweaks to its Collections feature.
Collections, a way to help Edge users collect webpages they're interested in viewing later, will soon allow you to add video and pictures, as well as to share Collections with other users "so you can collaborate or brainstorm together."
The Inspiration element, also due for imminent rollout, will be "a feed with content related to your research."

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Cisco execs pledge simpler, more integrated networks

Is this the end of Switchzilla's dashboard creep?

Tobias Mann Thu 16 Jun 2022 // 01:58 UTC

Cisco Live In his first in-person Cisco Live keynote in two years, CEO Chuck Robbins didn't make any lofty claims about how AI is taking over the network or how the company's latest products would turn networking on its head. Instead, the presentation was all about working with customers to make their lives easier.
"We need to simplify the things that we do with you. If I think back to eight or ten years ago, I think we've made progress, but we still have more to do," he said, promising to address customers' biggest complaints with the networking giant's various platforms.
"Everything we find that is inhibiting your experience from being the best that it can be, we're going to tackle," he declared, appealing to customers to share their pain points at the show.

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If you're using older, vulnerable Cisco small biz routers, throw them out

Severe security flaw won't be fixed – as patches released this week for other bugs

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Thu 16 Jun 2022 // 20:07 UTC

If you thought you were over the hump with Patch Tuesday then perhaps think again: Cisco has just released fixes for a bunch of flaws, two of which are not great.
First on the priority list should be a critical vulnerability in its enterprise security appliances, and the second concerns another critical bug in some of its outdated small business routers that it's not going to fix. In other words, junk your kit or somehow mitigate the risk.
Both of these received a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10 in severity. The IT giant urged customers to patch affected security appliances ASAP if possible, and upgrade to newer hardware if you're still using an end-of-life, buggy router. We note that miscreants aren't actively exploiting either of these vulnerabilities — yet.

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Datacenter networks: You'll manage them from the cloud, eventually, claims Cisco

Nexus portfolio undergoes cloudy Software-as-a-Service revamp

Tobias Mann Tue 14 Jun 2022 // 17:00 UTC

Cisco's Nexus Cloud will eventually allow customers to manage their datacenter networks entirely from the cloud, says the networking giant.
The company unveiled the latest addition to its datacenter-focused Nexus portfolio at Cisco Live this week, where the product set got a software-as-a-service (SaaS) revamp.
"It's targeted at network operations teams that need to manage, or want to manage, their Nexus infrastructure as well as their public-cloud network infrastructure in one spot," Cisco's Thomas Scheibe – VP product management, cloud networking for Nexus & ACI product lines – told The Register.

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Cisco dials back on hiring, cool winds blow through economy

'I think it is a time for everyone to be prudent' says networking giant's CFO

Paul Kunert Thu 16 Jun 2022 // 13:01 UTC

Networking kingpin Cisco is hiring more cautiously to indicate that it, like many peers, is taking note of macroeconomic red flags.
"It's a time to be prudent," Richard Scott Herren, Cisco senior veep and chief financial officer told the Nasdaq Investor Conference. "I think it is a time for everyone to be prudent… so we're doing the same."
The hot spots – or the "highest priority items for us" – including security, will continue to see investments in headcount, he said.

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