Little news is good news for networking giant Cisco. On Wednesday, Switchzilla boasted another three months of steady, if unspectacular, profit growth in its second quarter of fiscal 2019. For the quarter (PDF), ending January 26: Revenues of $12.4bn were up 5 per cent from $11.9bn in Q2 2018. Net income was $2.8bn compared …

Patch TuesdayMicrosoft and Adobe have teamed up to give users and sysadmins plenty of work to do this week. The February edition of Patch Tuesday includes more than 70 CVE-listed vulnerabilities from each vendor – yes, each – as well as a critical security fix from Cisco. You should patch them as soon as it is possible. OMG, DHCP! For …

Cisco is fighting its own side's lawyers to get a bigger share of a component price-fixing payout, in the latest unedifying class-action legal battle in tech land. The networking equipment giant wants $192m of apparently over-priced capacitor purchases it made to be considered when calculating how much of a giant pot of …

Cisco has added performance features to its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), with all-NVMe systems, Optane SSD caching and FPGA acceleration. It has also extended HyperFlex out to ROBO* sites with central management. HyperFlex 4.0 was announced at Cisco's Barcelona CLEUR gig and features Edge 3-node clusters, …

A piece of banking malware that first debuted more than a decade ago is once again wreaking havoc. Known as Ursnif, the malware has been spotted in the wild by Cisco's Talos security team, and is currently spreading in the wild via poisoned Word documents. The Talos bug-hunters say the Ursnif infection has been active for …

RoundupThis week we saw Hadoop hacks, Exchange exploits, and Deadpool besting scammers. Here's some more computer security news to round off your week... Alarms sounded over incoming Cisco attacks Earlier this week, Cisco cleaned up a series of security flaws in its routers. Now, admins are being urged to apply those fixes as soon …

Cisco's irregular patch cycle has come round again and this time the focus is on the company's SD-WAN product. As well as high-rated bugs in Webex, small business routers and various security products, Switchzilla has disclosed one critical bug in its SD-WAN, and another four vulnerabilities rated high. That critical rating …

Pure Storage and Cisco have linked arms to build a converged FlashStack system for AI, a kind of AIRI microMINI but one that will run at half the speed. FlashStack is a line of reference architecture converged systems using Pure Storage all-flash arrays, Cisco UCS servers and Nexus switches. It has typically competed with the …

Networks roundupIs it any surprise that Cisco remained the dominant force in enterprise infrastructure during 2018? Synergy Research this week reported Switchzilla's footprint in the $125bn market has slipped by a couple of percentage points year-on-year, but the company still holds a 23 per cent share of the spoils. The main reason for …

Cisco's security team's holiday season has ended with a bang: 18 patches, but thankfully only one of them rated “critical”. Switchzilla's E-mail Security Appliance's AsyncOS operating system has the honour of 2019's first-and-worst in CVE-2018-15453. The bug affects how the appliance handles S/MIME-signed e-mails. If the …

Cisco could reap the benefits of the Western world's security crackdown on Huawei enterprise networking equipment, analysts from JP Morgan have said. "We expect companies with established global presence (again primarily Cisco and Ciena amongst others) to be well positioned to benefit from a pullback in business wins relative …

It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy fail. Here's what else broke: Message apps leave the side door open Researchers with Cisco Talos are warning that secure messaging apps including Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp are leaving …

Texas Instruments has rather feebly slapped down infosec researchers' findings on a so-called Bleedingbit Bluetooth Low Energy vulnerability after a more detailed explanation of the chipset's weakness emerged. A cry crying over her scraped knee IT Wi-Fi kit bit by TI chip slip: Wireless gateways open to hijacking via …

Companies relying on Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) software will have to hold off on installing the latest edition of Windows 10. The Redmond Zune-flinger says that the 1809 build of Windows 10, aka the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, will not be able to install on machines that run Cisco AMP for Endpoints. As a …

UpdatedCisco will take a second crack at addressing a vulnerability in WebEx that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a vulnerable installation. Switchzilla has issued a new fix to address CVE-2018-15442, a command injection bug in its video conference software that allows a local attacker to their elevate privileges, and …

Cisco is buying UK software house Ensoft for an undisclosed sum. The Harpenden-based outfit’s speciality is software for enterprise-grade routers and networking equipment. The minnow, which among other things, develops features for Cisco’s IOS XR operating system, will be absorbed into Switchzilla’s Service Provider Networking …

Riverbed made two announcements covering its SteelHead SD-WAN solution this week – a bunch of enhancements, and subscription pricing options. The networking firm said its core routing stack had been enhanced to improve support large, complex enterprise networks, and provide interoperability between legacy and SD-WAN networks …

A week after announcing hundreds of layoffs, Cisco has turned in a set of financials for Q1 of fiscal 2019 that are ahead of analyst expectations. layoffs Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week READ MORE Switchzilla's overall cost-cutting strategy strapped its profitability to a …