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Cisco Live 2017: Chuck Robbins discusses networking, security and the acceleration of the Apple partnership

Tech Republic Security

Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, sat down with TechRepublic Senior Writer Teena Maddox in an exclusive interview to discuss Cisco's partnership with Apple, the new era of networking, and security.

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NetworkToolbox- Network scanning and analyzing

CTOvision

Network Toolbox may be the best network app on in the Apple App Store. The Toolbox contains a suite of 32 tools that will help you analyze networks for configuration. It is also helpful in security or just general awareness of the networks you are on. Bob Gourley.

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Apple opens up its network of iPhones to help you find Tile-like lost gadget trackers

The Verge

Apple plans to extend its Find My network for locating real-world devices to third-party companies, the iPhone maker announced this afternoon during its State of the Union developer address following today’s WWDC keynote. Apple first added offline support for the Find My app using Bluetooth-powered mesh networking last year.

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An Apple HomeKit bug can send iOS devices into a death spiral

The Verge

That’s the upshot of a new piece of security research that has found a vulnerability capable of locking iOS devices into a spiral of freezing, crashing, and rebooting if a user connects to a sabotaged Apple Home device. the most likely way to trigger the exploit would be through a spoof Home network. Spiniolas said.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

Why does security have to be so onerous? Is this password secure enough: Mxyzptlk? Now that’s secure – good luck remembering it! We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption).

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How to secure your internet activity on iOS devices

Tech Republic Security

Learn about the on-device and network security options available to you in order to supercharge your internet security when browsing the web and using apps on iOS. The post How to secure your internet activity on iOS devices appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Researcher finds certain network names can disable Wi-Fi on iPhones

The Verge

A security researcher has found that certain Wi-Fi networks with the percent symbol (%) in their names can disable Wi-Fi on iPhones and other iOS devices. You can permanently disable any iOS device's WiFI by hosting a public WiFi named %secretclub%power Resetting network settings is not guaranteed to restore functionality.

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