Network Break
by Packet Pushers
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About this podcast
Network Break keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends, and business outcomes. Blending sharp commentary with a touch of humor, hosts Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray sift through the weekly landslide of press announcements, product launches, financial reports, and marketing decks to find the stories worth talking about. You come away with the information and context to make smart decisions in your organization and career … all in the span of a (longish) coffee break.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 250 episodes
- NB597: Extreme Announces Autonomous AI Agent; Cisco Debuts OT Security Cert · 36 min · Episode 597Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for HPE wireless OS vulnerabilities and for serious vulnerabilities in PHP and node.js. Security alerts carry us into the news as…
- NB596: Cisco, NVIDIA Plug New Optical Form Factor; TSMC Etches Another Record Quarter · 38 min · Episode 596Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert sounds for Nutanix Prism Gateway. Our news discussion covers a new pluggable optical form factor being pushed by Cisco and Nvidia, ORCA…
- NB595: Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity · 49 min · Episode 595Take a Network Break! We startup with follow-up on global tech news coverage and pronunciations, then pivot to Red Alerts about Dell Container Storage and SonicWall. This week’s…
- NB594: Visa Offers AI Security Software Free of Charge; Meta’s 1Pb Subsea Cable Puts Petal to the Metal · 43 min · Episode 594Take a Network Break! We discuss listener follow-up on orbital data centers, and hit the Red Alert for a string of Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. Visa releases its homegrown…
- NB593: AI Agents Come for Your Network; Google to Send TPUs Into Orbit · 44 min · Episode 593Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert for active exploits against Check Point’s Secure Gateway. On the news front, a Cisco survey says 51% of organizations run agentic AI in…
- NB592: AWS Recommends UAE Migration; FCC Wants More Spectrum for Satellite Broadband · 47 min · Episode 592Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista’s vulnerability reporting, and Cisco ISE takes center stage for our Red Alert. Then we dive into EVA Networks, a…
- NB591: Altera Adds PQC to FPGAs; Europe Spend Billions to Boost Satellite Broadband · 37 min · Episode 591Take a Network Break! Ivanti takes center stage with a red alert on four critical CVEs in its Neuron platform, and MikroTik also gets a mention for an actively exploited flaw in…
- NB590: Blue Origin Wins NASA Bid for Mars Telecoms; Fortinet Offers High School Hackers Curriculum · 28 min · Episode 590Take a Network Break! We begin with follow-up on the Cisco/Teleport deal and Chinese models on US public clouds. Our Red Alert warns of two critical vulnerabilities in HPE’s…
- NB589: OpenAI Makes Cyber Mess, Wants World to Clean It Up; Cisco Strategizes Infrastructure Identity · 31 min · Episode 589Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup about how Device Bound Session Credentials could thwart session cookie theft, and then highlight a string of critical…
- NB588: Active Threats Target Siemens PLCs; IBM Chills Qubits With Modular Cryogenics · 31 min · Episode 588Take a Network Break! It’s a Red Alert double feature for Oracle’s Internet Directory LDAP server and Cisco’s Secure Workload Software. In tech news, US law enforcement and…
- NB587: US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers · 36 min · Episode 587Take a Network Break! Our red alert goes to cluster of CVEs for Canonical’s LXD Linux Container system. On the news side, Palo Alto Networks adds AI-powered security evaluations…
- NB586: AI Angst Abounds; Arista Revs Up Q2 Revenue · 30 min · Episode 586Take a Network Break! Cisco takes center stage in our Red Alert after the network giant discovered a bunch of high-severity bugs in its Catalyst SD-WAN platform. It has rolled…
- NB585: Anthropic Models Bad Behavior; Orbital Data Center Patent Issued · 25 min · Episode 585Take a Network Break! We start with red alert for a serious vulnerability in HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server. In the news, Anthropic, not wanting to be one-upped by OpenAI…
- NB584: OpenAI Agents Mug Hugging Face; Fortinet Picks Intel for Custom Silicon · 32 min · Episode 584Take a Network Break! Scott Robohn steps in for Johna this week. We start with some followup on 3M and then tackle the news. Arista catches up to the rest of the market on a…
- NB583: TSMC Chips In Another $100 Billion for US Fabs; Can Data Centers Make It In New York? · 34 min · Episode 583Take a Network Break! In this week’s episode our red alert highlights two critical vulnerabilities in RabbitMQ, and we dig into listener follow-up about data centers in space…
- NB582: Infoblox Adds Network Observability with Kentik Buy; Satellite Data Centers vs. the Environment · 31 min · Episode 582Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion. On the news front, Infoblox acquires Kentik to add network observability to its portfolio, data…
- NB581: Brute Force Password Attack Bleeds Fortinet; US Sued Over AI Model Order · 22 min · Episode 581On this week’s Network Break, Johna Johnson and Scott Robohn start with a serious vulnerability in IBM’s Langflow open source software. On the news front, a massive breach of…
- NB580: Project Glasswing on Hold – or Not; Why You Should Hold In-Person Background Checks · 37 min · Episode 580Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers critical vulnerabilities found in OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant. On the news front, we discuss the status of Anthropic’s…
- NB579: Datadog Unleashes Autonomous Agents; SpaceX Launches IPO · 51 min · Episode 579Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry, including OS command injection and authentication bypass, for which patches are now…
- NB578: Cisco Goes All-In on AI Ops with Cloud Control; China Floats Underwater Data Center · 39 min · Episode 578Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a critical Android vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation to root. On the news front, we dig into Cloud Control…
