| Cisco releases patch to fix DoS vulnerability in 7600 routers Cisco on Wednesday released a patch that fixes a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the Cisco Session Border Controller (SBC) for the Cisco 7600 series routers. In addition to the patch, Cisco has published workarounds that mitigate the problem. All Cisco ACE-based SBC modules running software versions prior to 3.0(2) are affected. However, the Cisco XR 12000 Series SBC is not vulnerable. As economy sours, Cisco and others expected to crank up M&As Mergers and acquisitions among "Internet" companies like Cisco could grow significantly this year and next as these companies look for other avenues of growth in a down economy. Cisco drives network security market The network security market grew 8% in 2008, driven largely by Cisco, which grew revenue in a traditionally slow fourth quarter. Hunting down bots on your network "Bots are really tough to keep track off. Their Achilles heel has always been their bi-directional communication with a command and control server somewhere. I am a big believer in mining and correlating your current data to find answers on your network. With that in mind, I have been running the program Bot Hunter for a while now...a free program for tracking bots on your network that uses the Snort 2 correlation engine," Jimmy Ray Purser writes in his Networking Geek to Geek blog. Cisco taking share from Nortel? Cisco and Juniper may be picking up enterprise market share from bankrupt Nortel, which just posted a Q4 loss of $2.13 billion this week. Ruckus Wi-Fi gear goes upmarket As Cisco Systems enters the beam-forming Wi-Fi market, a pioneer of that technology, Ruckus Wireless, is taking aim at Cisco territory: large enterprises. All about OSPF Here's an index of three months of OSPF training posts by Wendell Odom. New details on Cisco's upcoming blade server The system will feature two quad-core Intel Nehalem processors and 384GB of memory. Brocade offers tests of its DCX vs. Cisco MDS 9513 and 9509 Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese has the results of a test that Brocade claims shows it outperforms its rival. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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