The networking company said on Monday that the problem was discovered by security researchers SourceSec, affecting three of its wireless routers: DIR-855 (hardware version A2), the DIR-655 (version A1 to A4) and DIR- 635 (version B). The devices are marketed to consumers and businesses.
The fault lies in the implementation of D-Link of the House of Cisco Network Management Protocol (FZ), which lets you configure the remote router. In a blog post on January 9, researchers said they had SourceSec “found a way to view and edit the configuration of …

“I gave up on what my traditional concept of a router was some time ago,” says Sam Noble, senior network systems administrator for New Mexico Courts. “It’s an obvious location to add additional services. But it does change the focus of the device. What it highlights is how much of a router is software, not as much a hardware platform as we tend to traditionally think of it.”
Some, however, still feel that if that general purpose device routes, it should be called a router despite the number of additional tasks …

Cisco is reminding us that the heart and soul of its business is still the humble router. In this case, possibly a not-so-humble router.
On Tuesday the company announced the CRS-3, its next-generation Web router for the world’s largest Web service providers. Cisco may have overhyped the announcement a tad. After a two-week countdown to an announcement that it said would “forever alter the Web,” the company unveiled what looks like an upgrade to its existing “core” router called the CRS-1.

Cisco Systems has hopped on the tablet PC bandwagon with a gizmo of its own that makes use of Google Android program and is targeted at business customers.
The company announced designs for the new tablet, called the Cisco Cius, in the coursework of its annual customer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The gizmo, which will only weigh about 1.15 pounds, will sport Cisco’s collaboration program that integrates virtual desktop applications with high-definition video.