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Cisco issues TLS advisory

While everyone was distracted by the HP/3Com deal, Cisco quietly issued a security advisory warning of an "industry-wide" vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that could impact any Cisco product that uses TLS or the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Read full story

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November 16, 2009

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