More work needed to blunt public’s AI privacy concerns: Report

Organizations aren’t making much progress in convincing the public their data is being used responsibly in artificial intelligence applications, a new survey suggests. The report, Cisco Systems’ seventh annual data privacy benchmark study, was released Thursday in conjunction with Data Privacy Week. It includes responses from 2,600 security and privacy professionals in Australia, Brazil, China,

Plug these vulnerabilities in VMware, Cisco products

Administrators of VMware and certain devices from Cisco Systems are being warned to install patches as soon as possible to close serious vulnerabilities. Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware’s Aria Operations for Networks have been discovered, with patches issued earlier this week.  Meanwhile, researchers at Rapid7 this week issued a detailed report on the vulnerabilities in the

Patched holes in Cisco routers have been used by Russians for years: Report

Russian government attackers have been exploiting unpatched and badly-configured Cisco Systems routers since 2021, according to an alert from U.S. and U.K. cybersecurity agencies. The vulnerabilities, which were publicized and patched in 2017, are in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco’s IOS and IOS XE Software. They could allow an authenticated remote

Use of multifactor authentication increasing, Cisco data shows

Organizations around the world — including in Canada — are increasingly adopting multifactor authentication (MFA) to improve their cybersecurity posture, a new report from Cisco Systems suggests. The numbers, which come from an analysis of the use of Cisco’s Duo MFA platform, show authentications through Duo were up almost 15 per cent in the U.S.

Microsoft Teams is now available on Cisco meeting room devices under a new partnership

Cisco Systems and Microsoft have announced that they are adding Microsoft’s messaging app Teams to their meeting devices, offering users an alternative to Cisco’s Webex video conferencing app. According to the companies, video conferencing users will be able to choose whether to run Cisco Webex or Microsoft Teams natively on their Cisco Meeting devices and […]