Thursday, November 1, 2007

Cisco to buy Securent for $100 million


Category: Biometric News, Security, Cisco Systems Inc., Reuters, Corporate & legal
Communications equipment giant plans to swallow 57-employee security software maker by the second quarter of 2008. Cisco Systems, the largest U.S. communications equipment maker, on Thursday said it plans to buy security software maker Securent for $100 million in cash and assumed options. Privately held Securent, based...

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Cisco.com goes dark on patch day


Category: Biometric News, Security, Ryan Naraine, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco.com
On the same day Cisco released patches for multiple operating system and software vulnerabilities, the network routing and switching vendor suffered an outage that knocked the Cisco.com offline for about three hours.The outage, blamed on "human error [that] caused an electrical overload on the systems," affected support services, including access...

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