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Cisco Partners With Bang & Olufsen To Create Wireless Earbuds For Hybrid Workers
Cisco are a digital communications company aimed primarily at the enterprise and business markets who have partnered up with professional high-end audio manufacturer Bang & Olufsen to produce some new Wireless Earbuds which are designed for those doing Hybrid work. Bang & Olufsen Cisco 950 Earbuds The new earbuds from…
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Almost £1M Worth of Counterfeit IT Equipment Seized by Police
Officers from the City of London Police’s intellectual property crimes unit were following a tip that led to the seizure of close to £1M worth of computer hardware. These were not any normal IT equipment hardware, but were actually thousands of dodgy counterfeit hardware items. Police estimate that if the…
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Hundreds of Cisco Switches Vulnerable to Simple CIA Hacking Command
One of the revelations that will always astonish me is the pervasiveness and efficiency of state surveillance. Recently, the CIA had an internal wiki database exposed through WikiLeaks. Hearkening back to the days of the Snowden revelations, we are now discovering that he intelligence agency is sitting on a treasure trove…
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Annual Global Web Traffic to Exceed 1 Zettabyte This Year
The internet is a big place, and it’s growing at an exponential rate every year. With websites now averaging 2.3MB, and their size is “increasing inexorably” says Ronan Cremi, CTO of DeviceAtlas, who released a study on webpages earlier this year. That means that websites are now on average at least…
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Drones and Remote Cameras Look to Protect Rhinos From Poaching
Technology can be used for some interesting and amazing purposes, from getting a car to drive itself to saving people’s eyesight, technology is often used to help people. Now networking giant Cisco is teaming up with technology firm Dimension Data to protect rhinos in South Africa. The new partnership will see technology…
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Library Management Software May Be Open to Ransomware Attacks
When it comes to software, schools are either on top of it or a little behind. The reason being is mostly the budgets they have to deal with, one piece of software that is often ignored by schools, which tend to have to work on the “if it isn’t broken…
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Apple Designing Servers In-House to Prevent Snooping
With the amount of sensitive information stored on their servers, cloud providers take security very seriously. However, many cloud services actually use third-party servers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure to run their platform. Even for those with their own servers, the hardware is made by and supplied by third-parties. In…
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Internet Traffic Soon to Reach a Zettabyte
We use the internet every day, from checking your emails to watching the latest shows, the internet has become a default part of using a computer for a lot of people. With more and more using the internet, for even more complex reasons, it comes as no surprise that companies…
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Hundreds of Cisco Routers Carrying Malware
Nearly 200 Cisco internet routers have been found to carry malware, reports volunteer internet security organisation Shadowserver Foundation. News of infected Cisco routers was first reported by the company itself back in August, when it was revealed that attackers had replaced firmware on the devices with malicious malware implants, allowing…
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Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft to Create Next-Gen Video Format
The Alliance for Open Media, comprised of Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix, has been formed in an effort to create the next-generation of royalty-free video formats, codecs, and related technologies. Though there is no mention of it in the official announcement, the enterprise seems designed to bypass paying…
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Drive Destroying Malware Discovered
Cisco Systems’ Talos Group have discovered a new malware that takes ninja operation to a whole new level. It has been dubbed Rombertik and it basically monitors everything you do on the web, including all of your personal information. This nasty bit of software gets installed when a user unknowingly…
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Google Aiming at Making Wi-Fi Hotspots out of Old NYC Payphones
Bloomberg reports that a meeting in New York providing information to companies interested in offering free Wi-Fi has counted Google as one of the attendees, aside from IBM, Samsung and Cisco. However, Google is known for its ambition to offer free or affordable internet connectivity, which indicates that the corporate…
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Solar-Powered, Smartphone Charging Benches to be put in Boston
Soofa is a smart urban furniture company developed by Changing Environments, (an MIT Media Lab spin-off) and they’re bringing the Silicon Valley feel to Boston. As we’ve learned, this companies trendy name is derived from the acronym SUFA (Smart Urban Furniture Appliance) with the ‘double o’ added for a modern feel.…
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Hackers Target E-Banking Users By Exploiting Router Vulnerabilities To Hijack the DNS
There have been reports about critical vulnerabilities in a variety of routers, including Cisco, TP-Link, ASUS, TENDA and Netgear among others, all of which can be found in a normal household. According to Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska), they have noticed an increase in cyber attack, leading to…
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Cisco Systems To Shift Focus On ‘Internet of Everything’
Cisco Systems is said to have focused on the Internet of Everything (IoE), which basically connects everything to everything. From people, to mobile devices, smart gadgets and homes, transportation networks, data, processes, a world where every device capable of connecting to the internet will be connected and synced with each…
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