Network Break

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 » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb541-cisco-gets-serious-about-wi-fi-certs-is-ai-infrastructure-ebullience-ebbing/]

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 » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb540-pqe-in-pan-os-fbi-warns-7-year-old-cisco-bug-under-attack/]

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 » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb539-boom-times-for-arista-sonicwall-offers-200k-firewall-warranty/]

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 » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/nb538-ai-copilot-to-help-steer-hpe-sase-softbank-will-test-5g-airships/]

Take a Network Break! Guest opinionator Tom Hollingsworth joins Johna Johnson to opine on the latest tech news. On the vulnerability front, several versions of BentoML are open to a server side request forgery. Looking at tech news, Intel will spin out its networking and edge group as it continues cost-cutting, Palo Alto Networks makes... Read more » [https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/network-break/0804-nb537/]