Cisco's former PR manager, along with the company's VP of worldwide intellectual property denied directing the now-defunct and controversial patent troll blog. Former PR Cisco spokesperson, John Noh, along with Mallun Yen are being sued for defamation by Texas attorney Eric Albritton. According to Marketwatch, Albritton claims that the Patent Troll Tracker blog, which was authored by former Cisco IP Director Rick Frenkel, called his ethics into question. READ MORE
Yesterday we noted that Chirag Mehta, an exec working at SAP blogged that he believed that Cisco's virtualization efforts could eventually lead it to becoming a software-as-a-service player - even buying up a couple of key SaaS players. So it was interesting when today we came across a press release with "Cisco" and "SaaS" in the text.
Why one-time passwords are weak against SSL VPN vulnerabilities08/18/08Cisco security expert and Cisco Subnet blogger Jamey Heary has returned from Black Hat with lots of network security tips to share. Read Jamey's posting about the best way to defend against SSL VPN 
vulnerabilities. He writes: "Blackhat '08 disclosed several SSLVPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take notice. Some of these new exploits performed a brilliant Man-in-the-Middle attack on SSLVPN tunnels. I'll walk you through how using certificates, instead of OTP tokens, for second factor authentication can increase the security of your SSLVPN solution against these new types of attacks."
It appears that bloggers are writing more about Cisco and cloud computing than Cisco itself is. In his 
aptly named Cloud Computing blog, Chirag Mehta, an architect and design and innovation strategist with SAP raises the issue that Cisco could partner with a cloud vendor to offer richer network management. He also believes that Cisco could aquire a couple of key SaaS players to offer network-managed services.
Networking reseller CXtec says it is bouncing back after cutting 45 staff in July following the loss of its Cisco 
partnership last fall, reports The Central New York Business Journal. The company was apparently the only authorized reseller to sell refurbished Cisco equipment under its "equal2new" program but CXtec lost that status when Cisco moved to a standard indirect channel strategy. The deal with Cisco began in 2001 and sales of those products eventually grew to about a quarter of CXtec's business, reports CNYBJ.
$300,000 was the amount that Cisco parted with in Q2 to lobby legislators on patent reform, trade measures and efforts to crack down on cybercrime, reports the Associated Press. The money was also spent getting across its views on network neutrality, and efforts to spread broadband connections. Cisco also lobbied on a bill that would make it illegal for U.S. online content providers to hand over users' personal information to governments that restrict Web access.
Cisco warns of WebEx ActiveX security hole 08/15/08Cisco is warning of a buffer overflow flaw in an ActiveX control used by the WebEx Meeting Manager. If 
exploited, hackers could execute arbitrary code on the user client machine. The WebEx Meeting Manager is a client-side program that is provided by the Cisco WebEx meeting service, which automatically downloads, installs, and configures Meeting Manager the first time a user begins or joins a meeting. Workarounds to the problem is available at Cisco, which said WebEx is in the process of upgrading the meeting service infrastructure with fixed versions of the affected file.
When big customers like AT&T cut back on their capital expenditure, their suppliers - such as Cisco - get 
a headache. Such is life when a big corporation contributes a large slice of Cisco's revenue. But for other vendors Cisco itself is that large customer that contributes a large slice of their sales. Take Cable & Wireless which two years ago cut its ties to the consumer world so that it could focus on a few large customers - including Cisco. The networking giant became one of C&W's first customers to sign up for its planned-MPLS network that will cover the Middle East, reports ITPro.
The City of Oakland, Calif., has been experiementing with unified communications for 10 years and installed a Cisco VoIP system in 2003 but that was swapped out for a Shoretel system. View this 4 minute video about why the city chose Shoretel, how the system integrates with the rest of the city's office infrastructure and why the system isn't used by the city's 911 emergency network.
JDSU 4th Quarter 2008: Expect strong outperformance for its advanced optical technologies (AOT) segmentAccording to RBC Capital Markets, expect strong outperformance for the advanced optical technologies (AOT) segment of JDSU during tomorrow's release of its 4th Quarter 2008 results. RBC Capital Markets Managing Director ...Read more
Brad Reese is research manager at BradReese.Com, advancing the careers of 1 million certified individuals in the growing Cisco Career Certification Program.
Get Smart about CCNA Security – Part 2 of 2(Wendell here - Kevin's wrapping up today on CCNA Security - thanks, Kevin!) Kevin Wallace, CCIE #7945, CCSI, CCSP, CCNP, CCDP, CCVP, is a full-time instructor of Cisco courses for SkillSoft ...Read more
Wendell Odom, CCIE No, 1624, splits time between writing books for Cisco Press and teaching classes for Skyline ATS. His books include titles on QoS, CCIE R/S, as well as several titles related to CCNA certification, including his newest book Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802) (Read a sneak peek of chapter 7). Follow Wendell's blog here. More free chapters from other Cisco Press books here.
Going Back to SchoolA couple years ago, I looked at my career and thought about where I wanted to be in 10-15 years. I was in the middle of architecting and building ...Read more
Morris is a Technical Team Lead and Network Architect at a $3 billion high-tech company. His background is in enterprise WANs working with telcos, and developing large-scale routing designs.
Managing a JUNOS ConfigurationOne of my longtime gripes about IOS is that when you type a new statement to the CLI and hit return, the statement immediately becomes active on the router. ...Read more
Jeff is president of Jeff Doyle and Associates, an IP networking consultancy, and author of Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I (read an excerpt) and II. Read the transcript of our live online text chat with Jeff entitled "IPv6: Will matter to the enterprise in five years."
SSLVPN Vulnerabilities - Client Certificates offer a superior defense over OTP devicesBlackhat '08 disclosed several SSLVPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take notice. Some of these new exploits performed a brilliant Man-in-the-Middle attack on ...Read more
Jamey Heary, CCIE No. 7680, is a security consulting systems engineer at Cisco. Jamey is the author of Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access. Read a chapter from the book here. Follow Jamey's blog here. More free chapters from other Cisco Press books here.
Manufacturers' Inside Sales vs. Channel Partners: the good, the bad and the ugly Manufacturers' inside sales versus Channel Partners; the good, the bad and the ugly I received a call from a CIO this weekend while playing golf, the call started on the ...Read more
Larry Chaffin, Ph.D, is the CEO/chairman and founder of Pluto Networks a consulting company specializing in VoIP, WLAN and security. He is also author of a number of books including Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, and Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1.
Call Routing Part 8: Route List Details NYC DID: (212) 551-XXXX SJC-NY Route Pattern: 55.1XXXX SJC DID: (408) 622-XXXX NYC Route Pattern: 62.2XXXX The San Jose (SJC) cluster Route Pattern of 55.1XXXX is pointed to the New York City ...Read more
Dennis Hartmann, CCIE No. 15651, is a unified communications consultant and author of Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 1. Dennis is also a lead instructor at Global Knowledge.
Cisco and Linksys Channel Programs Get Merged Cisco Systems has announced the elimination of the Linksys channel program, and the intent to fold as many as 20,000 channel partners into the “Registered” tier of the overall Cisco ...Read more
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Cisco Telepresence: Pretty Spooky…A while back I had my first experience using a Cisco Telepresence system (3000), and I thought that I would share some thoughts. My overall impression is that it is pretty ...Read more
Mark Lewis (CCIE#6280) is an independent consultant who helps service provider and large enterprise clients design and implement leading-edge technologies. Mark has designed and implemented a variety of large-scale technology solutions including VPN, MPLS, QoS, data center, and IP telephony. Mark is the author of Comparing, Designing, and Deploying VPNs; Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks; and CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets.
10 Tips for taking the CCIE Lab examFor those of you who are preparing for CCIE Lab exam. I found this on the CCIE website, thought it might be useful to share. Some of them seem trivial, ...Read more
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Cisco warns of WebEx ActiveX security hole
Cisco is warning of a buffer overflow flaw in an ActiveX control used by the WebEx Meeting Manager. If exploited, hackers could execute arbitrary code on the user client machine. The WebEx Meeting Manager is a client-side program that is provided by the Cisco WebEx meeting service, which automatically downloads, installs, and configures Meeting Manager the first time a user begins or joins a meeting. Workarounds to the problem is available at Cisco, which said WebEx is in the process of upgrading the meeting service infrastructure with fixed versions of the affected file. READ MORE.
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