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 …

Networking overlord Cisco has punted its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) platform into AWS-hosted public cloud. Available on-premises since 2014, ACI is Switchzilla's home-brewed software-defined networking platform that automates management of connectivity and security policies, with a focus on keeping the …

Cisco has buddied up with with Schneider Electric on a range of reference designs for micro data centres, featuring its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure appliances. The enclosures have been pre-integrated with servers to speed up installation, and can arrive complete with UPS, PDUs, cable management, blanking panels, …

UpdatedJust as Cisco is looking to close up more than two-dozen security flaws in networking boxes, researchers are claiming a set of previously-issued patches are failing to work properly. Bug-hunters with German testing group RedTeam Pentesting GmbH said today that two fixes included in a recent update for the RV320 Gigabit WAN …

Attacks targeting a years-old – and patched – vulnerability in a Chrome extension for Cisco's WebEx are on the increase, according to security outfit WatchGuard. The vulnerability, which was disclosed and rapidly fixed at the beginning of 2017, allows malicious websites to remotely execute commands on Window systems that have …

Dell EMC has assembled Ready Stack designs for punters who want to build validated converged infrastructure stacks – customers can use any combo of server, storage and networking as long as it's Dell EMC gear, natch. Three become one: Dell EMC's VxBlock range is now a seriously big iron READ MORE The publicly-listed biz has …

Cisco has published patches for a plethora of problems with its products, including vulns that could trigger denial-of-service conditions – and a sneaky one that "could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges". The root vuln exists in the NX-API feature of Cisco's NX-OS switch …

Hitachi Vantara has taken a leaf out of the Cisco-NetApp FlexPod playbook by twinning Cisco servers and networking with its own storage in a converged infrastructure deal. Multi-level burger too big to eat. Photo by Shutterstock If you're NetApp-y and you know it, clap your hands. If you're app-y and you know it... READ MORE …

Cisco has patched three of its RV-series routers after Pen Test Partners (PTP) found them using hoary old C function strcpy insecurely in login authentication function. The programming blunder can be exploited to potentially hijack the devices. PTP looked at how the routers' web-based control panel handled login attempts by …

Cisco's security limb has spotted nefarious people targeting Elasticsearch clusters using relatively ancient vulns to plant malware, cryptocurrency miners and worse – though it does root out some other cybercrims’ dodgy wares, cuckoo-style. "These attackers are targeting clusters using versions 1.4.2 and lower," said the …

Cisco emitted on Wednesday a bunch of security updates that, your support contract willing, you should test and roll out to installations as soon as possible. There are 17 advisories in all, including revised versions of previously issues bulletins, with six marked as high in terms of severity and the rest medium. The worst of …

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 …