Cisco has announced a hardware encryption module for its ISR G2 router that allows point-to-point encryption of IP traffic based on what's called "Suite B," the set of encryption algorithms designated by the National Security Agency for Department of Defense communications.
Cisco Systems unveiled last week a massive collection of security advisories and patching 10 distinct vulnerabilities in the process. All the vulnerabilities were related to some of the company’s widely used software, as well as unified communication products.
A former Cisco engineer at the center of an extradition controversy has been indicted by a federal grand jury on computer hacking charges.
Peter Alfred-Adekeye faces five counts of illegally accessing Cisco's network after he left the company in 2005, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The indictment was handed down in the U.S. District Court in San Jose.
Cisco Systems plans to cut 15 percent of its jobs and sell a factory as part of a plan to cut annual expenses by $1 billion as the network equipment maker tries to revive its fortunes.
The cuts are deeper than what financial analysts expected. The company said on Monday that it will cut 11,500 jobs, compared with the several thousand that analysts predicted. The cuts come after Cisco's chief executive John Chambers said in April that the company lost its way.
A Chinese city of more than 12 million, one of the nation's most populous, is deploying 500,000 CCTV cameras to crack-down on crime.
The Peaceful Chongqing project will see cameras deployed across half a million neighbourhoods and parks over some 600 square kilometres in Chongqing, according to the Wall Street Journal.
