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Vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager lets attackers change any user password

reader comments 26 Cisco on Wednesday disclosed a maximum-security vulnerability that allows remote threat actors with no authentication to change the password of any user, including those of administrators with accounts, on Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem devices. The Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem resides inside the customer premises and provides a dashboard for managing… Read More »

Tech giants form AI group to counter Nvidia with new interconnect standard

reader comments 8 On Thursday, several major tech companies, including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, and Broadcom, announced the formation of the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group to develop a new interconnect standard for AI accelerator chips in data centers. The group aims to create an alternative to Nvidia’s proprietary… Read More »

Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations

Enlarge / Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. reader comments 56 A Florida resident was sentenced to 78 months for running a counterfeit scam that generated $100 million in revenue from fake networking gear and put the US military’s security at risk, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Onur Aksoy, aka Ron… Read More »

Wormable code-execution flaw in Cisco Jabber has a severity rating of 9.9 out of 10

Getty Images reader comments 40 with 25 posters participating Share this story Cisco has patched its Jabber conferencing and messaging application against a critical vulnerability that made it possible for attackers to execute malicious code that would spread from computer to computer with no user interaction required. Again. The vulnerability, which was first disclosed in… Read More »