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One of the most satisfying aspects of working at Cisco is tackling a thorny problem of engineering or computational science, and seeing your work reflected in a global standard or a shipping product within a few years. In wireless networking in particular, we have teams on the leading edge of resear…

Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary CUJO AI produces the CUJO Smart Firewall, a device that provides protection to home networks against a myriad of threats such as malware, phishing websites and hacking attempts. Cisco Talos recently discovered 11 vuln…

Craig Tranter is a former educator, and now serves as a technology presenter for Cisco. This blog is part of a series on advancements and opportunities in education. All views are his own.  One thing that all teachers will be fairly familiar with by now is the use of Interactive White Boards (IWBs).…

High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. To show you how this powerful technology can be used across disciplines in higher education, we’ve started a high-performance computing series that provides real use cases for these supercomputers. Today, we’re talking big data. If…

High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. This isn’t news to scientists, but most researchers studying fields other than quantum mechanics and molecular modeling probably don’t realize that they can use a supercomputer to ramp up their analysis. This power, historically re…

It’s hard to imagine where we’d be as a civilization without the dreamers and doers who aren’t afraid to ask “Why?” or “How?” Just the discoveries and advances in science and medicine and technology in my lifetime are mind boggling: ice on Mars and new planets outside our solar system, developments…

The first episodes of Beers with Talos are now available on iTunes and directly on talosintelligence.com/podcasts. When Talos decided to make a threat intelligence podcast, we wanted to make it different than your typical buttoned down, subdued security podcast. The BWT crew: Craig, Joel, Nigel,…

Multi-layer SDN remains an area of strong interest for our customers and a recent report by ACG Research (Q3-2016 worldwide Transport/Multi-Layer SDN results) shows that we continue to maintain the top position in four individual categories (metro, edge, core, and control / application software) alo…

In late August we began to detect malicious Microsoft Word documents that contained VisualBasic (VB) macro code and the code appeared to be triggering when the document was opened. However, the documents did not contain any of the standard events used to launch VB macro code when a document is opene…