It was announced last week that hardware accessories vendor Belkin has agreed to buy Cisco’s Home Networking Business unit, which includes the strong Linksys brand. The terms of the deal, which is expected to close in March, were ...
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Cisco is investigating a reported vulnerability in Linksys firmware that would allow a hacker to gain full control of the wireless router. Security vendor DefenseCode discovered the flaw and reported it to Cisco "months ago." Because ...
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A reported vulnerability in Linksys firmware that would allow a hacker to gain full control of the wireless router has led Cisco to launch an investigation, the firm said on Tuesday. Security vendor DefenseCode discovered the flaw and ...
Tags: vulnerability, Linksys firmware, wireless router, Cisco
New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video. Since last year's CES, 802.11ac -- which is the latest in IEEE's family of WLAN standards -- has gone from a new ...
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Cisco Systems said a privacy policy for the Cisco Connect Cloud service that alarmed some customers was a mistake and has been removed. The cloud service,which among other things allows users of some Wi-Fi home routers to manage their ...
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A Cisco Linksys router update which connected customers' routers to its Connect Cloud service without their knowledge and the company's licensing terms around user data has recharged privacy and security concerns surrounding cloud services. ...
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Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied firmware. Coppola, who is a security ...
Tags: SOHO routers, botnet clients, backdoored versions, firmware
Cisco today announced another acquisition with the purchase of policy control firm BroadHop. BroadHop is the 11th buy that Cisco has made this year as it continues to bolster its portfolio of networking products. BroadHop aims its ...
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Cisco Systems has taken a step back from its Cisco Connect Cloud service, removing it as the default setting for management of its Linksys EA Series Wi-Fi routers after a firestorm of complaints from customers about automatic firmware ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/3/2012 12:25:50 AM By Kara McCartney, strategy and insight director, Landor Associates Has this happened to you? You are experiencing sluggish wireless ...
1. Teen: Easy-Bake Oven needs gender-neutral packaging A New Jersey youngster has started a petition asking Hasbro Inc. to change the girly colors and graphics on the carton to make the popular toys more boy-friendly. 2. Cisco redesigns ...
This is where we give key peripherals,components,and networking products their due.The competition was particularly fierce in the router market this year,as companies jockeyed for position in both the nascent 802.11ac space and the more ...
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A taste of Cisco's acquisitions The threat from software-defined networking(SDN)Cisco diversifies portfolio Acquisitions more cost-effective than R&D Extending customer base and innovation There is nothing unusual about an industry ...
Tags: Cisco, software-defined networking(SDN), Lightwire, Clive Longbottom
Hackers of the world,unite!You have nothing to lose but the lousy stock firmware your routers shipped with. Apart from smartphones,routers and wireless base stations are undoubtedly the most widely hacked and user-modded consumer ...
Tags: DD-WRT, Vyatta, security, Hackers, routers, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense
Some users of new Wi-Fi routers from Cisco's Linksys division complained this week that the company automatically updated the routers' firmware and pushed them toward a cloud-based administration service they didn't want. Users posting on ...
Tags: Cisco, Wi-Fi routers, routers, cloud-based administration service