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...
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20 of 268 episodesNB588: 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,...
NB576: IBM Gets Big Bucks to Build Quantum Chip Fab; AT&T Sues to Hang Up on Copper Phone Lines
Take a Network Break! We sound the alarm about a critical vulnerability in an on-prem Azure stack. On the news side, AI NetOps startup Selec...
NB575: AI Multipath Protocol Goes to Open Compute Project; Cisco Shrinks Workforce as Income Swells
Take a Network Break! In this week’s Red Alert we suggest an audit of your Azure environment after Microsoft says it patched four crit...
NB574: Extreme’s New AI Agent Nudges You; Cloudflare Evaporates 20% of Employees
Take a Network Break! There’s a Red Alert for Apache Polaris with four CVEs that could enable unauthorized read/write access. On the n...
NB573: Cisco Open-Sources OpenClaw Protection; T-Mobile Taps Starlink for Broadband Redundancy
Take a Network Break! It’s a busy show this week. We start with follow-up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, router bans, and end...
NB572: Quantum Switches and Flying Cars
Take a Network Break! We start with follow up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Linux 7.0. On the news side, Cisco announces a prot...
NB571: Linux Loads 7.0 with Network Upgrades; NetGear Routes Around FCC Ban, But How?
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a trio of vulnerabilities in Cisco ISE. On the news front, Cloudflare announces a private network...
NB570: Project Glasswing’s FUD and Thunder; Au Revoir Windows, Bonjour Linux
Take a Network Break! We commence with a red alert on FastMCP, and then debate whether Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is a marketing st...