Cisco issues critical security warnings its Data Center Network Manager

January 7, 2020By

Cisco warns of vulnerabilities that can let attackers issue arbitrary actions with administrative permissions. Cisco this week issued software to address multiple critical authentication exposures in its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software for its Nexus data center switches. DCNM is a central management dashboard for data-center fabrics based on Cisco Nexus switches and handles a number of core duties such as automation, configuration control, flow policy management and…

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Oracle previews MySQL 5.6

April 11, 2012By

Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the next MySQL relational database management system. The Development Milestone Release (DMR) for MySQL 5.6 comes with a number of new and still experimental features for the open source database system, including improved replication and the ability to bypass the SQL framework for faster data…

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Flashback Virus

April 11, 2012By

Think your Apple computer is immune? Think different. A nasty bit of malware called Flashback has infected approximately 600,000 Macintosh computers worldwide through a Java security flaw, according to a Russian security firm — and Apple itself is hard at work on a fix, the company said Tuesday. “Apple is developing software that will detect and remove the Flashback malware,” the company wrote in a support document on its…

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