Archive for July, 2009

An undersea cable plugging east Africa into high speed Internet access went live Thursday, providing an alternative to expensive satellite connections. The cable links southern Africa to Europe and Asia. SEACOM, the cable provider company, opened its 17,000 kilometer submarine cable, capable of 1.28...

Certain Cisco products ( Cisco Unity 4.x, 5x., and 7.x ) that use Microsoft Active Template Libraries (ATL) and headers may be vulnerable to remote code execution. In some instances, the vulnerability may be exploited against Microsoft Internet Explorer to perform kill bit bypass. In order to...

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) platforms. This security advisory outlines the details of the following vulnerabilities: Malformed HTTP or HTTPS authentication response denial of service vulnerability SSH connections denial of service vulnerability Crafted HTTP...

In the last weeks more and more people are speaking about the new Cisco Architect Certification. The truth is that the details about this certification is still very unclear and nobody seems to know in which direction this will head to. Let’ see what I understood from the process of achieving this...

OK, you catch me as this is not from Cisco, but is related to networking and security, so I believe it fit in the idea of this blog. What I’m talking about here?! Well, let’s assume that you are the IT guy of one small business or even your home network, and like all of us, you want what’s...

Source: https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-5365 As this are quite new to me, I do not have too much to comment on the subject. Cisco Certifies Architect seems to be the new “hit” from Cisco regarding the knowledge and experience that a candidate has to achieve before applying,...

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