Threat actors linked to the Russian government are falling back on a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco equipment that was first uncovered in 2018, according to a warning from the FBI. The flaw in question, tracked as CVE-2018-0171, exists in the Smart Install (SMI) feature of Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and IOS XE. It arises…
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For the better part of a decade, digital transformation has been discussed in terms of apps, data and cloud platforms. These are worthy topics, but they tend to float above the actual places where work happens. Offices, campuses, shared spaces: the physical backdrop has been an afterthought. That’s changing. The next phase of digital transformation…
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Over 100 models of Dell laptop PCs across the enterprise-centric Latitude and Precision ranges, and many thousands of individual devices, are at risk of compromise through a series of five common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that affect their security firmware and associated Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces (APIs), according to a disclosure from the Cisco…
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A 25-year-old British national named as Kai West faces a lengthy prison term in the US after a series of charges against him were unsealed by the authorities, alleging his involvement in multiple cyber attacks. West is alleged to have been the man behind the IntelBroker identity. Working with a group of hackers, he is…
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Pure Storage has launched Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC), which knits together several existing elements in its offering to provide enhanced visibility of data storage and simpler policy-based management-oriented outcomes for the business. It has also announced new high-performance flash arrays and the availability this year of a 300TB (terabyte) Direct FlashModule, including a solid-state drive…
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Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…
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The government will prioritise cyber security and cyber technology in its forthcoming industrial strategy as it looks for ways to boost the economic growth of the UK.The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, will use a speech to announce that the cyber sector will be a “prime target for economic growth” in Labour’s…
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Cisco has unveiled its plans to prepare networking for the era of quantum computing. As it officially opened its Quantum Labs in Santa Monica, the company announced that it has developed a prototype quantum network entanglement chip, in collaboration with the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara. According to Cisco, the chip generates pairs of…
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In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. Since we last looked at Hitachi Vantara, its storage portfolio has undergone something of a revamp, based around its VSP One family that offers block, file and object storage – with performance profiles that range…
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Dozens of technology firms are continuing to put the lives and livelihoods of supply chain workers at risk by failing to meet even the most basic due diligence expectations around forced labour and human rights abuses, finds sectoral analysis. Conducted by KnowTheChain (KTC) – a project run by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…
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