This post was written by Katie Bumper

Cisco Systems Inc. has made available three patches for their router products. According to the press release:

These patches are to fix bugs which are serious enough to crash Cisco products. One of the patches fixes denial of service bugs in the SSH software in the company’s Internetwork Operating System, apart from fixing a similar bug in their Cisco Service Control Engine. Another patch is for privilege escalation vulnerability in the company’s Voice Portal automated telephone customer service software.”

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This post was written by Melissa Chang

According to this article in Barron’s, Paul Wick, manager of the Seligman Communications and Information Fund, has made an interesting prediction about Cisco. According to Wick, Cisco is overdue to do a large deal – for example, going after EMC, the large corporate storage and software company. Barron’s predicts that this would be a deal in the mid-$40 billion range. From the article:

A big deal, yes, but one for which Cisco would get considerable value. EMC is a leader in enterprise storage; they also have assembled an impressive portfolio of software assets through a deliberate acquisition strategy, and now own Legato Systems (acquired in 2003), Documentum (another 2003 deal) and RSA Software (bought in 2006).

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