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WatchGuard has issued an urgent patch alert for its Firebox firewall appliances after discovering a critical-rated vulnerability that is under exploit by threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2025-14733 , with a CVSS score of 9.3, the flaw is an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability affecting the iked process, a WatchGuard Fireware OS component responsible for the IKEv2 key exchange in IPSec VPNs. According …

Security researchers have flagged a coordinated credential-based campaign targeting VPN authentication endpoints from Cisco and Palo Alto Networks. Over just two days in mid-December, attackers launched large-scale automated login attempts against Cisco’s SSL VPN and Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect services. A GreyNoise analysis noted that the campaign does not exploit software bugs, but instea…

A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report . The outage also disrupted Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming file ingestion, an…

A maximum severity remote code execution vulnerability in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OneView network and systems management suite is “bad” and needs to be patched immediately, says a cybersecurity expert. “Vendors typically downplay the severity of a vulnerability,” says Curtis Dukes , executive VP for security best practices at the Center for Internet Security, “but HPE did not – it’s a 10…

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. Abstraction interface (SAI) An abstraction interface (SAI) is an API designed to allow network software (such as an operating system) to control the hardware of a network switch . Traditionally, if you bought a switch from a specific vendor, you had t…

Ransomware attacks in 2025 have caused business operations to cease for weeks and months at a time, resulting in massive financial losses in organizations around the globe in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. These major breaches go well beyond the purview of the security team alone. They demand boardroom attention and a fundamental rethinking of enterprise defense strategies…

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…

Cisco has warned that a China-linked hacking group is actively exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in its Secure Email appliances to gain persistent access, forcing affected organizations to consider disruptive rebuilds of critical security infrastructure while patches remain unavailable. Cisco Talos said the campaign has been active since at least late November , raising concerns for s…

Two decades ago, Linux emerged as a mainstream operating system and was perhaps the most well-known open source technology. What has emerged around Linux as part of the broader networking ecosystem are a series of open source technologies and projects that have become foundation to modern connectivity. Open source networking has gone mainstream: In fact, 92% of organizations now view it as critic…

Cisco has rolled out an AI Security and Safety Framework it hopes will help customers and the industry get out in front of what is expected to be a potential flood of adversarial threats, content safety failures, model and supply chain compromise, and agentic behavior problems as AI becomes an integral part of the enterprise network. With AI, humans, organizations, and governments cannot adequate…

The open-source Kubernetes cloud native platform is getting its last major release of 2025 today. Kubernetes 1.35 comes nearly four months after the Kubernetes 1.34 update, which integrated a host of enhancements for networking. Kubernetes has emerged to become the default cloud technology for containers and is supported by every major cloud platform. It powers everything from traditional web app…

Readying enterprise infrastructure for AI and other resource-heavy applications is high on the to-do list for businesses looking to stay competitive 2026. The rise of AI has heightened the importance of IT modernization, as many organizations are still reliant on outdated, legacy infrastructure that is ill-equipped to handle modern workload requirements, says tech solutions provider World Wide Te…

Google caused two significant disruptions in the AI chip field last month. The first one was the release of its 7th generation tensor processing unit (TPU), codenamed Ironwood . The chips offered a significant improvement in inference processing, for which it was custom built. Ironwood also offered massive memory scale and bandwidth come with something needed in AI processing. The second came a f…

Let’s face it, the last couple of months haven’t been great for the cloud. In October, both Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure had widely publicized, highly impactful failures . In November, a Cloudflare outage took down a big chunk of websites , effectively closing some businesses. I even had problems getting a haircut because the salon website was down with Cloudflare-itis and I couldn’t join a…

Nvidia has taken a strategic step deeper into the AI software stack with its acquisition of SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, a widely used open-source workload manager for high-performance computing and AI clusters. Slurm plays a central role in scheduling large, resource-intensive jobs across thousands of servers and GPUs, shaping how AI workloads are distributed in modern data centers. “Nvidia …