A major IT outage at Meta has affected services on its three core platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, for millions of users on an apparently global basis. Reports of outages made through the popular Downdetector service peaked at 15:35 GMT (10:35 EST) on Tuesday 5 March, with over half a million complaints made in regard…
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
A new breed of app user has emerged since the pandemic – one who relies heavily on applications for their day-to-day activity – research from Cisco AppDynamics has found. According to the study – which was based on a global poll of 15,000 consumers – over the past two years, a new type of application…
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Cisco has shed more light on speculation that has gathered around a sudden drop in the number of hosts known to have been infected with a malware implant delivered through two zero-day vulnerabilities in its IOS XE software platform. Late last week, scans conducted by threat researchers found many tens of thousands of hosts had…
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Cisco has warned users around the world after observing ongoing exploitation of a newly discovered zero-day in the web user interface (UI) feature of its IOS XE software when inadvertently exposed to the public internet or untrusted networks. Tracked as CVE-2023-20198, the issue enables a remote, unauthenticated attacker to set up an account on a…
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Cisco has updated its full-stack observability platform with the latest version of Cisco Secure Application, designed to help IT departments secure development and deployment of cloud native applications Cisco said the product connects business context with security findings, bringing together application performance data with security intelligence from Cisco’s existing security products. It also offers business…
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It is probably safe to say that Salesforce and Zoom are two of the most high-profile software companies operating today, and outside of an IT context, two of the best known to the public. And it’s certainly safe to say that thanks to their prominence, both are targets for threat actors and cyber criminals who…
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Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…
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Cases of straight-up data theft and extortion now appear to be more widespread a threat than ransomware, becoming the single most observed threat in the second calendar quarter of 2023, according to data released this week by researchers working with Cisco Talos. According to Cisco Talos’s incident response telemetry, incidents of data theft and extortion…
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Some of the world’s largest suppliers of networking technology have joined together with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, a Washington DC-based non-profit, to form an industry alliance focused on aligning technology providers, cyber security experts and non-profits to help solve some of the most pressing cyber security problems affecting data and networks today.…
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