Cisco has laid off 500 programmers in its home state of California amid disappointing financial results and a sagging share price. The cuts were disclosed in paperwork filed this month to the US state's Employment Development Department – a legal requirement for companies over a certain size getting rid of employees – and show …

Cisco warned of problems on the horizon as it wrapped up it fiscal 2019 financial results [PDF]. For the calendar quarter, ended July 27: Revenues of $13.4bn were up 5 per cent from Q4 2018, beating Wall Street's estimates by $40m. Net income of $2.2bn was down 42 per cent from $3.8bn in the year-ago quarter. This was …

RoundupBefore letting the IT staff clock out early for summer, make sure they read up on the following security notices out this week. Cisco warns of four flaws in small biz switch line Organizations using Cisco Small Business 220 Series switches should make sure the firmware on the device is up-to-date with today's update from the …

RoundupHere is a quick roundup of the recent happenings in the world of computer security beyond what we've already reported. Also, look out this week for our Black Hat, DEF CON, and Bsides Las Vegas coverage: our vultures out in the Nevada desert will produce a string of articles from the hacking conferences. Amazon closes one open …

Cisco finds its bank balance $8.6m lighter after it agreed to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit in the US over its video surveillance software. On Wednesday, attorneys for whistleblower James Glenn announced that the networking giant's payout would settle the first ever US False Claims Act case to involve information security …

Network overlord Cisco is reportedly planning to purchase Signal Sciences, a frequent cybersecurity collaborator and member of the Cisco Security Technical Alliance. Signal Sciences is an American upstart that deals in web application security. Its flagship product is a next-generation Web Application Firewall (WAF) delivered …

Network overlord Cisco has had its own Victor Kiam moment and is set to slurp one of its suppliers, optical interconnect specialist Acacia Communications, for $2.6bn in cash. Acacia specialises in coherent optics, using modulation of the amplitude and phase of light, as well as polarisation to send more data down a piece of …

Cisco has delivered a bundle of 17 security updates to address 18-CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its networking and communications gear. Switchzilla has classified 10 of the fixed bugs as high security issues, with exploits leading to everything from command and code execution to denial of service- a particularly serious …

RoundupHere's a quick Monday summary of recent infosec news, beyond what we've already reported. Cisco emits critical bug fixes Admins running Cisco gear will need to dedicate some time to updating their software an firmware following the release of 26 security patches from Switchzilla. Of the fixes, three are for critical flaws: …

Among a bumper crop of 57 security issues Cisco divulged on Wednesday was a fix for a trio of vulns, one critical, in networks management tool Prime Infrastructure. The latter potentially allows unauthenticated miscreants to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on PI devices. CVE-2019-1821 "can be exploited by an …

Cisco has said US president Donald Trump's latest trade tariff hike on Chinese imports barely forced it to up its own prices because it had shifted some production outside the Middle Kingdom in anticipation of the policy. At the close of last week, the US slapped a 25 per cent duty on $250bn worth of stuff – some 5,200 …

Security weaknesses at the heart of some of Cisco's network routers, switches, and firewalls can be exploited by hackers to hide spyware deep inside compromised equipment. In order to exploit these flaws, dubbed 😾😾😾 or Thrangrycat by their discoverers, a miscreant or rogue employee needs to be able to log into the vulnerable …

RoundupLast week, a Symantec boss stepped down, a Chinese hacker was called out, and an AirBnB hidden camera creep was cuffed. What else went on? See below. Systemd, Linux, AMD and shoddy randomness File this one under bad situations that probably don't affect anyone. It reemerged that some older generation AMD processors fail to …

Right on cue, Cisco on Wednesday patched a security vulnerability in some of its network switches that can be exploited by miscreants to commandeer the IT equipment and spy on people. This comes immediately after panic this week over a hidden Telnet-based diagnostic interface was found in Huawei gateways. Although that …

Networking overlord Cisco has unveiled Wi-Fi access points and core switches supporting the latest wireless networking standard, the 802.11ax – otherwise known as Wi-Fi 6. Plenty of its competitors have already launched their own takes on the standard, including HPE's Aruba, Huawei, Netgear and TP-Link – even though the …

Dell EMC and Cisco have renewed the dark pact under which the two collaborated on converged infrastructure (CI) products for a decade. Today the tie-up revolves primarily around the VxBlock 1000 systems: Cisco's UCS servers and Nexus switches, storage from Dell EMC, virtualization from VMware, and maintenance and support from …

Cisco has issued a security patch for a flaw in some of its routers that can be exploited by miscreants to potentially rifle through telecommunications networks. Switchzilla says the vulnerable kit – the ASR 9000, a family of high-end gear aimed at carrier and telco edge deployments – can, in certain circumstances, be hijacked …

Internet domain registrars and at least one registry were hijacked to change certain websites' DNS settings so that visitors to said sites were in fact directed to password-stealing phishing pages, researchers detailed on Wednesday. It is believed this is the first time state-backed miscreants have compromised web domain …