Last year, Cisco Systems sued a security researcher and organizers of the Black Hat event after a presentation on switch and router security. This year, Cisco is quietly investigating a possible ...

In addition, Cisco warned Black Hat organizers that if they did not remove the 15 pages of written material ISS had submitted over a month ago for inclusion in the bound 1,000-page conference ...

The security researcher who stirred up a hornet's nest last summer when he went public with a new exploitation tactic against Cisco's popular network routers has been hired by rival Juniper Networks.

Cisco&'s IOS, the operating system that runs the San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant&'s routers, has been perceived as impervious to remote execution of arbitrary code from stack and heap ...

There I was, running late to the Black Hat conference because of the weather, riding the long escalator to the third floor of Caesar’s Palace in Vegas when I heard someone at the top of the ...

After six months of research work, Lynn discovered a way to shut down a Cisco router so that it could not be restarted. In light of the 2004 theft of Cisco’s IOS source code, it was possible ...

There was no , the networking giant said this week. It has investigated claims by a security researcher that the firewall was flawed, but could not reproduce the issue. "(We're) closing the loop ...