The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to replace, Cisco revealed earlier this week. The new ...

Three years ago, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an alert on how cyber adversaries obtained hashed password values and other sensitive information from network infrastructure ...

Cisco on Wednesday disclosed a maximum-security vulnerability that allows remote threat actors with no authentication to change the password of any user, including those of administrators with ...

Cisco has issued a patch that fixes a severe password weakness in many versions of its Smart Software Manager On-Prem (Cisco SSM On-Prem), used by a subset of customers to manage product licenses ...

Cisco has supplied a patch for its Video Surveillance Manager software to erase hardcoded default credentials for the root account. Admins responsible for appliances running Cisco's surveillance ...

Security-conscious enterprises and consumers aren’t the only ones who rely on encryption to protect their information from prying eyes. Hackers are increasingly applying cryptography as well to ...

Cisco has shared a set of recommendations for customers to mitigate password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices.