Cisco’s top-of-rack switches connect servers within a data center rack to the wider network. The new N9348C8D-H2 raises that capacity with 48 100G server ports and eight 400G uplinks. Cisco says the switch addresses growing traffic from increasingly powerful consolidated servers, not just AI workloads.

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CISA has flagged two vulnerabilities in Cisco BroadWorks, a telecommunications platform, and Openwave Messaging’s Webtop Media Transcoder, which converts files for webmail, as actively exploited. Patches have been available since August and October 2026, respectively. Federal civilian agencies are advised to apply them by November 24.

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Cisco Cloud Control is a cloud-based service for managing the company’s networking devices and software. Starting in 2027, Cisco says every product it ships will integrate with the platform, although products will not necessarily require a Cloud Control connection to be managed. Cisco also plans to expand the service beyond the United States and extend its Live Protect vulnerability controls to more products.

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GL.iNet’s NAS Plans Teased – What Do We Hope For…. GL.iNet has started teasing 2 NAS products: a 4-bay desktop model and a mobile NAS. So far, the company has shared very little confirmed information about either device, which means this article is not a preview of their hardware or software. It is an assessment […]

Network appliance vulnerabilities take more than a year to patch at the median, while exploited flaws reached CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog in a median of just three days in 2026 through September. Microsoft’s analysis of about 383,000 CVEs shows the widest exposure gap is on critical systems that are slow to update.

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Fireperf is an open-source network testing tool for measuring how firewalls, routers, and other stateful systems handle connections—not just how much data they can transfer. It is available in packages for several Linux distributions, including Debian, Arch Linux, RHEL-compatible systems, and openSUSE. Its standout features include tracking connection setup failures and running multiple clients through one server port at the same time.

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Microsoft’s October 28 preview update, KB5127936, fixes Remote Desktop failures that blocked non-admin users on hosts with Administrator Protection enabled. The issue followed earlier updates and affected connections with error 0xC000000D; Microsoft’s fix builds on the resolution covered in its Windows 11 Remote Desktop error update.

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Microsoft says the October 28 KB5127936 preview update finally fixes Windows 11 Always On VPN failures, after it had to retract its claim that October’s update resolved the bug. Always On VPN creates secure connections between devices and corporate networks; September’s security updates broke some profiles using automatic protocol selection or fallback between IKEv2 and SSTP. Affected connections could hang at “Connecting” or report that the specified port was already in use.

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Cisco has tasked 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy with rewriting 98% of its legacy code within 24 months, giving him unlimited AI-coding tokens. The first test is a four-week proof of concept. The ambitious target comes after Krishnamurthy proposed that a two-person team could do the work.

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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN controllers manage connections between an organization’s sites. Talos says attackers used a critical authentication flaw to plant KeyDrift, malware that can collect encryption key material from controller traffic. Separately, Lumen reports Volt Typhoon exploited the same flaw from late 2025, but has not linked that activity to KeyDrift.

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Cisco has released fixes for CVE-2026-76418, a zero-day attackers are exploiting to remotely crash Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices. The flaw affects reachable SSL VPN services when secondary authentication is configured on a tunnel group; attackers don’t need to log in. Shadowserver is tracking more than 51,000 Cisco ASA SSL VPN devices exposed online, though that count does not show how many remain vulnerable.

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Cisco has open-sourced Project Quarry, a detection engine that looks for risky behavior across an AI agent’s full session rather than judging tool calls in isolation. The release includes a command-line scanner, a Python SDK, and plugins for Claude Code, Codex, and other MCP-compatible agents. Cisco says Quarry is already used in AI Defense and plans to bring it to DefenseClaw.

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PHP2Shell’s reach extends beyond websites: embedded PHP can leave firewall, VPN, and other appliance management interfaces exposed to remote code execution. CISA has confirmed active exploitation of the flaws, and added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Appliance customers often cannot patch PHP themselves; they must wait for vendors to issue updated firmware.

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A fix for critical EDK II vulnerability CVE-2026-97631 has been merged into the project’s code, but no stable release includes it yet. The flaw can let an attacker run code in firmware while a server boots over the network, before Secure Boot checks startup components. Until hardware vendors ship firmware updates, organizations that do not need PXE boot can disable it to reduce exposure.

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Tailscale creates a secure private network connecting devices, and Tailscale SSH lets approved devices connect across it without passwords or keys. A researcher’s Tailworm report described how a foothold on an approved device could lead to root access on reachable servers; Tailscale has now released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws that could let a permitted session reach root-only services. The Tailscale SSH server runs on Linux and the open-source macOS build.

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Should you buy the GL.iNet Mango 2 or the UniFi Travel Router? In our hands-on comparison, the short version is that the UniFi Travel Router is the slicker and more ecosystem-friendly option, especially if you already live inside UniFi Network. However, the GL.iNet Mango 2 is the stronger all-round pocket router for most tinkerers, travellers […]

UniFi Travel Router Long-Range vs GL.iNet Mango 2: 2 Compact Routers with Different Priorities The UniFi Travel Router Long-Range and GL.iNet Mango 2 are compact dual-band Wi-Fi 5 routers designed to place several devices behind a familiar private network while using public Wi-Fi, Ethernet or a tethered mobile device as the internet source. Both provide […]

GL.iNet is preparing a much more conventional home mesh router system called Velica, and it is not just another pocket travel router. In our latest NASCompares coverage, we looked at the GL.iNet Velica 7 / Velica Mesh Router System, a WiFi 7 mesh platform built around a larger main hub, smaller satellite nodes, 2.5GbE networking […]

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2026 NAS Deals on Synology, QNAP, UGREEN, TerraMaster, Seagate and More That’s right, it’s that time again. Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2026 is officially underway from October 6th to October 7th, giving Prime members 48 hours of deals across storage, networking, PC hardware and consumer electronics, and effectively acting […]