This news is a couple of weeks old, but is definitely worth having a look at anyway.

Basically, a guy called Sebastian Muniz of Core Security released a proof of concept root-kit for IOS routers.

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Here at CiscoNews, we are always interested to hear what people use to make their lives a little easier when administering Cisco kit.

Ill get the ball rolling with some of the tools we use and I would be interested to hear what you use too!

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This is an interesting little tool.
For a long time now people have asked us what to use to manage IDS/IPS systems and how to report based on that information.
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InfoSec, for the unitiated, is the biggest and best Information Security conference in Europe.

Obviously we had a representative or two down there to check out the booth babes..I mean Security products..

 There was some really great stuff too, although Cisco weren’t present!

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Cisco ASDM is used to manage the ASA and Pix families of firewalls. Version 6.1.1 got a release a little while ago and brought a few welcome tweaks. Mainly, the look and feel has been improved. The graphs, tables and Pie charts now look a little more like something you might show a non-technical person/Manager.

The interface graphing has also had the same improvements.

Get it at www.cisco.com with a valid service account

Cisco have released the new 800 series routers. Both the 86x series and the 88x series routers are now listed on Cisco.com. Our UK supplier has informed us that these are not yet available to order however!

All info is available HERE
They actually look a lot more like the 1800 series. Looks like the wireless versions are “Wireless N” certified too!

Cisco finally released version 6 of CSA. Its been a long time coming too!

Look HERE 

Hopefully this will be a little easier to live with than past versions. It also adds support for Windows Vista!!

It looks like Cisco are going to be releasing Security updates to IOS on the fourth Wednesday of the month in both March and September.

More HERE

It has been confirmed by apple today that the iPhone will get a Cisco VPN client in June. This will launch alongside the Version 2 firmware for the iPhone. Great news for anybody in our field

See more HERE