Category: network

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Cisco people update and Patch NOW!

Cisco Tiki art from logic board
Cisco logic board

Just a quick shout out …. So one of the things that is some times talked about is the problem of the “non heterogeneous” or homogenous networking environment. The illusion that choosing the market dominant product (because everyone else buys it) is the right thing to do …. Anyhow it seems that Cisco is in a bit of bother due to its some what hated buggy protocol CDP. If your a cisco nerd and haven’t caught up on this it might be time to do a bit of serious patching!

Have a look at this wired article
Cisco Flaws Put Millions of Workplace Devices at Risk

And also the Reg have something about it
Tens of millions of Cisco devices vulnerable to CDPwn flaws: Network segmentation blown apart by security bugs

Stay safe on the Interwebs!

Steve

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My skin is crawling right now.

Currently reading thru this from bloomberg it’s mind numbing stuff and if true, is just disgusting. Humanity builds these incredible and amazing machines & then what do we do? What do we do@!!
We snitch on each other like disgruntled school children.

IT Security what a brain Fu(K.

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Now coming at you via fiber optic – or FTTP!

So I moved home recently and what I didn’t realise, and what was also a very pleasant surprise, was that the new home has a fiber optic link (or fttp if you want the nice acronym!). So now via a not so great gigabit link via my ISP’s cheap and rather crappy supplied modem. It’s not rocket ship fast but should hopefully be a lot better than the old ADSL2 link that the poor thing limped along on. Fingers crossed that this should work faster and we should have longer uptimes!