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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Cisco Wireless Control System sensitive info is open; Dept. of Energy lab nails down wireless security

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Network World's Cisco News Alert, 06/13/07

Cisco Wireless Control System sensitive info is open:  Cisco warned that holes in its Wireless Control System could allow a remote use to access sensitive wireless configuration information, read from and write to arbitrary WCS files ...

Dept. of Energy lab nails down wireless security, 06/12/07:  The terms "wireless" and "security" don’t always go hand-in-hand. But the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is proving that these concepts are compatible with an innovative system that uses cutting-edge wireless technology to improve campus security.

Cisco WebEx marketing is over the top:  Kris Tuttle, founder of software research firm Research 2.0, is fed up with Cisco's unrelenting marketing of WebEx.

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Winners of May's Cisco Press book giveaway:  The sheer number of entries to win both volumes of Jeff Doyle's must-read, Routing TCP/IP was phenomenal, but alas we only had 15 copies each of both volumes to give away. The winners have been notified ...

More from Cisco Subnet:  Cisco and Juniper do battle in the core router arena; Arthur Johnson, a CCNA with a top secret SSBI seeks relocation to Iraq; Author Expert Denise Donohue checks for rouge APs and switches; Cisco confirms CTA flaw; and Cisco takes its green initiative far and wide.

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Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth covers Cisco for Network World.



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