Cisco routers are deployed in networks around the world and play pivotal roles in small networks as well as global wide area networks (WANs). The stability and security built into a Cisco router are ...

Government agencies in the U.S. and Japan say that a group known as BlackTech has been observed compromising Cisco routers and installing backdoors for maintaining access. Hackers linked to the People ...

Security researchers have found that the firmware for several Cisco small-business routers contains numerous security issues. The problems include hardcoded password hashes as well as static X.509 ...

Cisco routers are built into the fabric of the Internet and enterprise networks, a fact that makes them highly attractive targets for attackers. Researchers at FireEye have come across attacks ...

Replacing router firmware with poisoned versions is no longer just a theoretical risk. Researchers from Mandiant have detected a real-world attack that has installed rogue firmware on business routers ...

At some point in the future, asymmetric cryptography may be rendered useless, as quantum computing will be able to decrypt everything. That is, unless the cryptography is using some form of ...

Cisco has released a patch for its widely-used IOS and IOS XE switch and router software as researchers plan to reveal a flaw in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol used to setup IPSec-protected ...

Cisco has reported two vulnerabilities affecting a feature designed to protect software being used in the networking giant's widely deployed switchers and routers. According to a company advisory ...

When Cisco released the Valet Plus ($90, 4.5 stars), it had raised the bar for wireless router setup. Other vendors, I predicted, were sure to follow suit. Since then, most of the newer routers on the ...

Attackers have installed malicious firmware on nearly 200 Cisco routers used by businesses from over 30 countries, according to Internet scans performed by cybercrime fighters at the Shadowserver ...

Cisco routers and switches running the Cisco IOS software and configured to process IP version 4 (IPv4) packets are vulnerable to a DoS attack, the San Jose-based company said. "A rare sequence of ...