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  • NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok

    NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok
    Sep 15 2025
    Take a Network Break! We start with a listener correction on Cisco’s history of wireless certifications, then dig into a couple of red alerts on Microsoft Defender and a backdoor in Outlook. On the news front, Cisco announces new AI agents and SoC packages for Splunk; F5 spends $180 million to buy an AI security... Read more »
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    30 min
  • NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks

    NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks
    Sep 8 2025
    Take a Network Break! We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX. SASE vendor Cato Networks makes first-ever acquisition with purchase of AI security startup AIM, Microsoft researchers tout hollow core fiber tests that out-perform glass core fiber optics, and Wi-Fi 7 helps drive up... Read more »
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    25 min
  • NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing?

    NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing?
    Sep 2 2025
    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 »
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    30 min
  • NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack

    NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack
    Aug 25 2025
    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 »
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    47 min
  • NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty

    NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty
    Aug 18 2025
    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 »
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    31 min
  • NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships

    NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships
    Aug 11 2025
    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 »
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    58 min
  • NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to Shed Networking Biz

    NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to Shed Networking Biz
    Aug 4 2025
    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 »
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    35 min
  • NB536: Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects

    NB536: Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects
    Jul 28 2025
    Take a Network Break! In our Red Alert section we note that memory safety bugs bug Firefox and Thunderbird, and on-prem SharePoint instances are under attack. In tech news, Fortinet adds support for Post Quantum Cryptography in FortiOS, Cato Networks integrates Azure Virtual WANs to its SASE offering, and we weigh the pros and cons... Read more »
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    28 min