Cisco SIO Delivering Training at Black Hat DC 2010 - Round 2

A few months back at Black Hat USA 2009 a few members of Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) delivered our first, of what is expected to be many, training sessions to conference attendees.  Well, here we are three months later …Read more.

Posted by Joseph Karpenko on November 02, 2009 at 05:09AM

September 2009 Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundle Released

Today we announced the September 2009 bundle of Cisco IOS Software Security Advisories. In line with our previous announcements, this grouping of advisories discloses security vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software. Information on the vulnerabilities disclosed today can be found at …Read more.

Posted by Tim Sammut on September 23, 2009 at 09:01AM

Cisco Security Advisory Lingo Demystified

It is almost that time of year again. Our Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is readying the release of the next bundle of security advisories for Cisco IOS. As stated in the original announcement, bundles are released on the …Read more.

Posted by Tim Sammut on September 15, 2009 at 08:33AM

Why Out-of-Cycle Cisco IOS Security Advisories Are a Good Thing

In the first part of 2008 we announced that we would be following a new disclosure schedule for Cisco IOS Security Advisories. This was done in response to customer feedback and the desire to make our advisory announcements more deterministic …Read more.

Posted by Tim Sammut on September 08, 2009 at 11:21AM

Cisco IOS Queue Wedges Explained

An interface queue wedge is a class of vulnerability in which certain packets are received and queued by a Cisco IOS router or switch, but due to a processing error, are never removed from the queue. This is a problem …Read more.

Posted by Tim Sammut on July 13, 2009 at 11:28AM

Cisco AXP Virtual Blade - Really Virtual or Virtually Real?

In one of my previous blogs, I’d posted that we’re providing an AXP “Virtual blade” based on the VMware player. Frankly, this has been available on our developer website for sometime, we probably hadn’t publicized it enough - so I …Read more.

Posted by Shashi Kiran on December 05, 2008 at 03:21PM