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Cisco quantum network controller lets apps order entanglement on demand
Cisco has built a Quantum Network Controller, a research prototype that lets an application ask a quantum network for entanglement and leaves the network to work out the …
Intent injection attacks are a new worry for AI-native 6G networks
Intent-based networking (IBN) lets operators state the outcome they want and leaves its translation into network policy to software, an approach AI-native 6G designs have …
AWS spent years rebuilding its routing control plane without taking the network down
Every AWS API call, CloudFront video stream, and Route 53 lookup crosses the same infrastructure, which AWS calls its border network. It now runs on a routing system rebuilt …
What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready
In this interview with Help Net Security, Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, discusses what post-quantum readiness looks like inside a mobile network. The discussion covers …
An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came back with 84 security …
15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic
TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the …
Wireshark 4.6.7 patches a dozen security flaws
Network analysts who open packet captures in Wireshark push untrusted data through a large set of protocol dissectors, and each parser is a spot where a malformed frame can …
Researchers open-source a Wi-Fi cyber range for security training
Wireless security training programs lean heavily on generic network labs, with Wi-Fi appearing as a checkbox alongside Bluetooth, Zigbee, and cellular. Hands-on environments …
Phishing can masquerade as emergency alerts for disasters, researchers warn
Emergency alerts for disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis are messages we hope we never see, and we trust them when they arrive. Researchers have shown that this trust can …
AI traffic is getting bigger, louder, and less predictable
AI workflows need storage that supports repeated movement across the model lifecycle. Large datasets are ingested, transformed, exported for training, pulled back for …
Wi-Fi roaming security practices for access network providers and identity providers
Public Wi-Fi roaming networks carry authentication credentials across multiple administrative boundaries, and the protocols governing that process vary widely in their …
Network segmentation projects fail in predictable patterns
Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed …
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