Episodios

  • NB545: CISA Orders Immediate Patch of Cisco Vulnerabilities; Firewall Upgrade Blocks Emergency Calls

    NB545: CISA Orders Immediate Patch of Cisco Vulnerabilities; Firewall Upgrade Blocks Emergency Calls
    Sep 29 2025
    There’s an abundance of vulnerabilities in this week’s Network Break. We start with a red alert on a cluster of Cisco vulnerabilities in its firewall and threat defense products. On the news front, the vulnerability spotlight stays on Cisco as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issues an emergency directive to all federal... Read more »
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    23 m
  • NB544: NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8 Billion Valuation

    NB544: NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8 Billion Valuation
    Sep 22 2025
    It’s big-money deals and ever-more AI on this week’s Network Break. We start with a red alert from NVIDIA, which has rolled out a software upgrade to patch multiple bugs in its Triton Inference Server, one of which is a dangerous remote code execution vulnerability. On the news front, NVIDIA pledges a $5 billion investment... Read more »
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    27 m
  • NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok

    NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok
    Sep 15 2025
    Take a Network Break! We start with a listener correction on Cisco’s history of wireless certifications, then dig into a couple of red alerts on Microsoft Defender and a backdoor in Outlook. On the news front, Cisco announces new AI agents and SoC packages for Splunk; F5 spends $180 million to buy an AI security... Read more »
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    30 m
  • NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks

    NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks
    Sep 8 2025
    Take a Network Break! We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX. SASE vendor Cato Networks makes first-ever acquisition with purchase of AI security startup AIM, Microsoft researchers tout hollow core fiber tests that out-perform glass core fiber optics, and Wi-Fi 7 helps drive up... Read more »
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    25 m
  • NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing?

    NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing?
    Sep 2 2025
    Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups regarding the 7-year-old Cisco bug, risks of AI agents, and Anthropic forcing you to opt out or have your chats saved for five years. Then we highlight a serious vulnerability (which is being exploited in the wild) in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway systems. On the... Read more »
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    30 m
  • NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack

    NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack
    Aug 25 2025
    Take a Network Break! We double-dip on red alerts as the FBI warns that Russian state hackers are targeting a seven-year-old vulnerability on Cisco IOS and IOS-XE devices (a patch has been available for seven years), and a compromised XZ Utils backdoor is still lurking in some Docker images. Palo Alto Networks has added support... Read more »
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    47 m
  • NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty

    NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty
    Aug 18 2025
    Take a Network Break! We start with critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Fortinet’s FortiSIEM. On the news front, SonicWall announces Gen8 firewalls plus a $200,000 warranty for customers that sign on to SonicWall’s Managed Protection Security Suite. IBM Cloud suffers its fourth major outage since May of this year, SASE vendor... Read more »
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    31 m
  • NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships

    NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships
    Aug 11 2025
    Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up on post-quantum support in firewalls and DPDK, then highlight a command injection vulnerability in Ruckus SmartZone software. In tech news, Broadcom rolls out the Jericho4 ASIC to help scale AI across multiple data centers, InfoBlox beefs up DNS protection to spot malicious domains faster, and HPE announces... Read more »
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    58 m