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 …

The inventor of two patents that covers Ethernet switching products has been given permission to question the validity of his own invention. That's the unusual upshot of a decision by a US federal appeals court this week, which ruled anyone – including the original inventor – is entitled to challenge the validity of a patent …

Cisco has claimed to be "bringing intent-based networking into every domain", the latest being branch offices which need software-defined WAN capabilities and security. The quote came from product management senior veep Sachin Gupta, who told El Reg the cloud has destroyed traditional notions of the "network edge", and while …

RoundupCisco admins, you thought your week was over, right? Sorry: if you have kit that runs Adaptive Security Appliance software or the Firepower Extensible Operating System, there's one more item on the task list: updating your certificate. Switchzilla's field notice explained that Cisco's root CA for tools.cisco.com was rolled …

Networking giant Cisco has opened the corporate kimono to reveal tech that manages its on-premises Kubernetes environment and AWS's cloudy version in a single product. The thinking goes that AWS has the lion's share of the market for containers, and Kubernetes and Cisco would dearly like a piece of the action with its on- …

Cisco this week patched critical vulnerabilities in its switches, Stealthwatch, and Unity voice messaging system. Oh, and 'fessed up that it accidentally shipped software that included in-house-developed exploit code for attacking Linux systems via the Dirty COW flaw. The networking giant also announced it has begun combing …

ExclusiveCisco has confirmed to The Register it launched a round of layoffs on Monday, effectively slashing its Customer Experience (CX) team, after insiders alerted us to the cuts. Between 200 and 300 jobs at least have been axed at Cisco CX, one Reg reader told us, along with up to 10 per cent of another division – understood to be …

Cisco says miscreants are actively exploiting a SIP vulnerability in its networking gear that it disclosed on Wednesday. The bug, CVE-2018-15454, lies within code in some Adaptive Security Appliances, and its Firepower Threat Defense software, that handles Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets. SIP is the signalling …

Cisco has made its long-awaited entry into the 400G space, today announcing four switches pitched at webscale, high-end enterprise, and service provider customers. The Register spoke on Thursday to data centre networking product management veep Thomas Scheibe, who said webscale data centres are already deeply into their …

Sorry to spoil your day, Cisco admins and users, but it's time to patch Webex, again. A freshly disclosed exploitable security bug lies within Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App for Windows, and while it's a privilege escalation bug one step below “critical”, and sitting pretty at "high," CVE-2018-15442 can be remotely abused in …

Good news, Cisco admins: there are no bugs rated “critical” in this week's batch of security patches – but there are seven that copped a “high” rating, and four of those are remotely exploitable. Two of the remotely-exploitable bugs are in the company's NX-OS operating system, as used in its Nexus and MDS switches. For those …

RoundupGerman internet exchange operator DE-CIX has again attempted to block the country's spy agency from tapping its network – this time by filing a constitutional complaint. The company brought a federal court lawsuit in 2016 that it lost in May this year, and late last week it was seen trying again. Reuters wrote that DE-CIX …

Today's captains of the tech set are just too arrogant, according to multimillionaire and Cisco-exec-turned-venture-capitalist John Chambers. "I worry about our industry — it's a tug-of-war between overconfidence, bordering on arrogance, among some of the leaders," Chambers told Yahoo! Finance. The moneybags 68-year-old …

Cisco admins, maybe you'd like to clear your Friday, because there's a fresh batch of critical-rated vulnerabilities to assess and patch as needed. The three worst bugs lie in Cisco's Prime Infrastructure and Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center products, and are among 26 bugs disclosed this week. One of the critical- …