NB596: Cisco, NVIDIA Plug New Optical Form Factor; TSMC Etches Another Record Quarter
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for Nutanix Prism Gateway. Our news discussion covers a new pluggable optical form factor being p...
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20 of 275 episodesNB595: Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity
Take a Network Break! We startup with follow-up on global tech news coverage and pronunciations, then pivot to Red Alerts about Dell Contain...
NB594: Visa Offers AI Security Software Free of Charge; Meta’s 1Pb Subsea Cable Puts Petal to the Metal
Take a Network Break! We discuss listener follow-up on orbital data centers, and hit the Red Alert for a string of Citrix NetScaler vulnerab...
NB593: AI Agents Come for Your Network; Google to Send TPUs Into Orbit
Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert for active exploits against Check Point’s Secure Gateway. On the news front, a Cisco survey...
NB592: AWS Recommends UAE Migration; FCC Wants More Spectrum for Satellite Broadband
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista’s vulnerability reporting, and Cisco ISE takes center stage for our R...
NB591: Altera Adds PQC to FPGAs; Europe Spend Billions to Boost Satellite Broadband
Take a Network Break! Ivanti takes center stage with a red alert on four critical CVEs in its Neuron platform, and MikroTik also gets a ment...
NB590: Blue Origin Wins NASA Bid for Mars Telecoms; Fortinet Offers High School Hackers Curriculum
Take a Network Break! We begin with follow-up on the Cisco/Teleport deal and Chinese models on US public clouds. Our Red Alert warns of two...
NB589: OpenAI Makes Cyber Mess, Wants World to Clean It Up; Cisco Strategizes Infrastructure Identity
Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup about how Device Bound Session Credentials could thwart session cookie theft, and then...
NB588: Active Threats Target Siemens PLCs; IBM Chills Qubits With Modular Cryogenics
Take a Network Break! It’s a Red Alert double feature for Oracle’s Internet Directory LDAP server and Cisco’s Secure Workl...
NB587: US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers
Take a Network Break! Our red alert goes to cluster of CVEs for Canonical’s LXD Linux Container system. On the news side, Palo Alto Networks...
NB586: AI Angst Abounds; Arista Revs Up Q2 Revenue
Take a Network Break! Cisco takes center stage in our Red Alert after the network giant discovered a bunch of high-severity bugs in its Cata...
NB585: Anthropic Models Bad Behavior; Orbital Data Center Patent Issued
Take a Network Break! We start with red alert for a serious vulnerability in HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server. In the news, Anthropic,...
NB584: OpenAI Agents Mug Hugging Face; Fortinet Picks Intel for Custom Silicon
Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news. Arista catches...
NB583: TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It In New York?
Take a Network Break! In this week’s episode our red alert highlights two critical vulnerabilities in RabbitMQ, and we dig into listen...
NB582: Infoblox Adds Network Observability with Kentik Buy; Satellite Data Centers vs. the Environment
Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion. On the news front, Infoblox acquires Kentik to add network...
NB581: Brute Force Password Attack Bleeds Fortinet; US Sued Over AI Model Order
On this week’s Network Break, Johna Johnson and Scott Robohn start with a serious vulnerability in IBM’s Langflow open source so...
NB580: Project Glasswing on Hold – or Not; Why You Should Hold In-Person Background Checks
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers critical vulnerabilities found in OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant. On the news front, we d...
NB579: Datadog Unleashes Autonomous Agents; SpaceX Launches IPO
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry, including OS command injection and authentication bypa...
NB578: Cisco Goes All-In on AI Ops with Cloud Control; China Floats Underwater Data Center
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a critical Android vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation to root. On the ne...
NB577: Cisco Brings SONiC to N9000 Switches; Broadcom Debuts Wi-Fi 8 SoCs for Consumer Routers
Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup and a red alert affecting ScadaBR, an open source SCADA controller. On the news front,...