article thumbnail

Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw

Network World

Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. The technology underpinning URWB came to Cisco in 2020 when it acquired Italian company Fluidmesh Networks. Who uses URWB access points?

Wireless 489
article thumbnail

November 2020 NPD hardware sales: Switch, PlayStation 5 split sales victory

Venture Beat

Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all had a strong month for hardware sales, according to the November 2020 NPD gaming report. Read More.

Hardware 139
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hardware-focused startup studio Conduit Venture Labs expands reach to support outside companies

GeekWire

Conduit Venture Labs Photos) Conduit Venture Labs , a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies, has expanded its reach with Conduit Beacon , a service offered to outside founders, companies, VCs and research entities to help them execute and scale.

article thumbnail

NPD 2020: Nintendo Switch was No. 1 hardware, PlayStation 5 was No. 2

Venture Beat

1 best-selling hardware, according to the NPD 2020 report. Nintendo Switch was the No. PlayStation 5 and Xbox also performed well. Read More.

Hardware 133
article thumbnail

Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. What do human firewalls bring to the company table?

Firewall 246
article thumbnail

Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Device spending, which will be more than double the size of data center spending, will largely be driven by replacements for the laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other hardware purchased during the work-from-home, study-from-home, entertain-at-home era of 2020 and 2021, Lovelock says.

article thumbnail

What is a firewall?

Network World

billion by 2020. Most firewalls are deployed as network hardware that processes traffic and software that allow end users to configure and manage the system. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. billion industry in 2015 and expected to reach $12.7

Firewall 408