Category Archives: Meraki

Flashing Booby-Trapped Cisco AP With OpenWRT, The Hard Way

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The Meraki AP PCB on a desk, case-less, with three USB-UARTs connected to its pins - one for interacting with the device, and two for monitoring both of the UART data lines.

Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source firmware for their devices, and this particular hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice access point …read more Continue reading Flashing Booby-Trapped Cisco AP With OpenWRT, The Hard Way→

Cisco simplifies networking and security operations with an expanded SASE offer

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Cisco expanded Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offer. This is the next important step in Cisco’s journey to radically simplify security and networking by helping network operations (NetOps) and security operations (SecOps) teams securely connect user… Continue reading Cisco simplifies networking and security operations with an expanded SASE offer→

Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera portfolio even smarter

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As the Internet of Things proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that helps the camera automatically identify what it’s looking at — for instance, an animal or a human intruder? Today, Cisco announced that it has acquired Swedish startup Modcam and is making it part of its Meraki […] Continue reading Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera portfolio even smarter→

Bleedingbit: Critical vulnerabilities in BLE chips expose millions of access points to attack

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Armis today announced the discovery of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) and used in Cisco, Meraki and Aruba wireless access points, called Bleedingbit. If exploited, they allow an unauthent… Continue reading Bleedingbit: Critical vulnerabilities in BLE chips expose millions of access points to attack→