20 Awards To Dimension Data At Cisco Event

By Rohan Parker

At the Cisco Partner Summit in Hawaii last week, Dimension Data left with a whole armload of awards, walking out with 20 in all, three of which were Global awards.
Dimension Data has created quite the profile for themselves, including Gold Partner classification on six continents, being valued at a total $3.8 billion, and having Cisco [...]

Teenager known as “Uppsala Hacker” may be charged with stealing Cisco’s source code

By Janine de Blois

The Swedish Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of 19 year old from Uppsala for hacking into 3 Swedish Universities and the Swedish National Supercomputer Center in Linkoping.
In an ongoing FBI investigation, the same hacker is thought to be responsible for stealing sample source code files from Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System [...]

Fake Security Blog Broadens Malware

By Dave Nixon

Users thinking of using a Google-hosted blog for security information could be in for a horrible surprise according to one security expert.
The ‘Brittany’ blog, which allegedly informs users of secuity risks, is actually trying to tempt users to click on a contaminated link, said Ofer Elzam, director of product management in Aladdin’s eSafe division. [...]

Cisco Releases Security Patches For Routers

By Janet Harris

Cisco has released three patches for security vulnerabilities in its Cisco IOS and IOS XR routers.
Although the patches have been issued to internet service providers, there is concern that cybercriminals could exploit the flaws before the patches are rolled out.
Security experts believe that at least one of the vulnerabilities could cause e-mail and internet access [...]

Cisco warns on unsafe remote access

By Brian Turner

Cisco have warned on the security of remote access workers, after a study they commissioned into the habits of remote workers found unsafe networking practices were rife.
Common insecure activities included:

sharing work computers with non-employees,
opening unknown e-mails
hijacking neighbors’ wireless networks

This was despite the fact that the majority of the workers in the survey considered themselves very [...]