Network Break from Packet Pushers Podcast
1) NB547: New Cisco Router Targets AI DCI; Salesforce Launches ServiceNow Competitor
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on security browsers, and then dive into a deep pool of Juniper vulnerabilities to pick two critical ones affecting Juniper Space. We also get an...Show More
2) NB546: Meta Mulls GPU Startup Purchase; Indirect Prompt Injection Exacerbates AI Risks
Take a Network Break! We start with a two-part listener follow-up and sound alarms about a serious flaw in Termix and tens of thousands of still-vulnerable Cisco security devices. Alkira debuts an MCP...Show More
3) NB544: NVIDIA Buys $5 Billion of Intel Stock; Netskope Rides SASE IPO to an $8.8 Billion Valuation
It’s big-money deals and ever-more AI on this week’s Network Break. We start with a red alert from NVIDIA, which has rolled out a software upgrade to patch multiple bugs in its Triton Infe...Show More
4) NB543: Splunk, ServiceNow Announce AI Agents; Data Center Spending Runs Amok
Take a Network Break! We start with a listener correction on Cisco’s history of wireless certifications, then dig into a couple of red alerts on Microsoft Defender and a backdoor in Outlook. On ...Show More
5) NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack
Take a Network Break! We double-dip on red alerts as the FBI warns that Russian state hackers are targeting a seven-year-old vulnerability on Cisco IOS and IOS-XE devices (a patch has been available f...Show More
6) NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty
Take a Network Break! We start with critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Fortinet’s FortiSIEM. On the news front, SonicWall announces Gen8 firewalls plus a $20...Show More
7) 0804 NB537:
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8) NB536: Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects
Take a Network Break! In our Red Alert section we note that memory safety bugs bug Firefox and Thunderbird, and on-prem SharePoint instances are under attack. In tech news, Fortinet adds support for P...Show More
9) NB534: Arista Late to SD-WAN Party but Ready to Dance; CoreWeave Acquires GPUs, Gigawatts for $9 Billion
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista market share in the enterprise, and then sound the alarm about a remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager. On th...Show More
10) NB531: Cisco Spotlights AI, Unified Management at CLUS; Ultra Ethernet 1.0 Unveiled
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert for the week is a remote code execution vulnerability in open-source XDR platform Wazuh. In tech news, we dig into several announcements from Cisco Live US includin...Show More