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Networking, storage and security solutions provider Netgear on Friday issued patches to address three security vulnerabilities affecting its smart switches that could be abused by an adversary to gain full control of a vulnerable device. The flaws, which were discovered and reported to Netgear by Google security engineer Gynvael Coldwind, impact the following models -.

NETGEAR announced more protective NETGEAR Armor capabilities with advanced security and threat detection for the smart connected home. The enhanced NETGEAR Armor built into most Orbi and Nighthawk routers provides a protective bubble for connected devices in a home network, helping consumers stay safe from hackers, malware and viruses.

Smart Communications has partnered with P.I. Works for a comprehensive strategy for its self-organizing network (SON) solution to automate its multi-vendor, multi-technology networks. A...

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS introduced NETSCOUT Smart Edge Monitoring to give IT teams complete visibility and insights to assure the highest-quality end-user experience in any network or application regardless of where employees perform their job. "IT organizations face big decisions in managing and advancing their networks and management approaches, which became even more urgent, during the pandemic on multiple fronts - from operations to optimization, from resolution to readiness, and from core and cloud to edge and client," stated Mark Leary, research director, network analytics, IDC. "To address the next normal in network management, ITOps needs to be able to diagnose whether applications, clients, services, or network infrastructure are causing performance problems. Here, it is vital to pinpoint and resolve service degradation issues across any domain rapidly and accurately."

These adapters enable next-generation NVMe and 24G SAS connectivity and manageability while delivering new levels of security required for next-generation data center infrastructure. "These adapters set a new benchmark in the industry for storage adapter security and performance with the latest NVMe and 24G SAS media, as well as flexibility for supporting 12G SAS and 6G SATA SSDs and HDDs.".

CyberLink announced a partnership with ASUS, by integrating its FaceMe AI facial recognition engine into ASUS's Tinker Board 2 single-board computer. The fruit of a close collaboration between the ASUS IoT and CyberLink's FaceMe team, this joint solution provides ready-to-use, fully integrated facial-recognition capabilities for security, access control, visitor management and contactless experiences for retail, public services, hospitality and more.

The USA's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced it will fund development of a new type of "Event-based" camera that only transmits information about pixels that have changed. The Agency last week announced last week that Raytheon, BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman will develop the new snapper under the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics program.

Vulnerabilities in the Zephyr real-time operating system's Bluetooth stack have been identified, leaving a wide variety of Internet of Things devices open to attack - unless upgraded to a patched version of the OS. A security advisory released by Synopsys this afternoon highlights eight key vulnerabilities in Zephyr's Bluetooth Low Energy software stack. The vulnerabilities, discovered through use of Synopsys's Defensics fuzzing software, are exploitable when the devices are in advertising mode and accepting connections from remote devices - putting a wide range of gadgets at risk.

Cisco has flagged and patched several high-severity security vulnerabilities in its Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches that could allow session hijacking, arbitrary code execution, cross-site scripting and HTML injection. Finally, CVE-2021-1571 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTML injection attack.

A team of University of Michigan researchers has developed a system that can inform a smart home - or listen for the signal that would turn on a smart speaker - without eavesdropping on audible sound. "There are a lot of situations where we want our home automation system or our smart speaker to understand what's going on in our home, but we don't necessarily want it listening to our conversations," said Alanson Sample, U-M associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science.