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  Next up in IoT: The Internet of shirts and shoes

  IoT startup Evrythng is teaming up with packaging company Avery Dennison to give apparel and footwear products unique identities in Evrythng’s software right when they’re manufactured.

• Cisco warns customers about attacks installing rogue firmware on networking gear

  Installing rogue firmware on embedded devices has long been a concern for security researchers, and it seems that such attacks have started to gain ground with hackers.

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  Cisco's new CEO hints at deals in software and security

  Chuck Robbins has only been in the job three weeks but the new CEO of Cisco Systems is already dropping hints about acquisitions.

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  The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, July 31

  Facebook drone set to fly this year...Windows 10 hit on browser choice...Hacker breaks into GM car using OnStar...and more tech news.

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  Cisco's pay package for CEO Robbins is a sweet deal

  Cisco will pay incoming CEO Chuck Robbins a higher salary than outgoing chief John Chambers made in fiscal 2014.

• Cisco quits set-top box market, sells business to Technicolor

  After ten years of making networked set-top boxes, Cisco Systems plans to quit the business, selling its Connected Devices division to French firm Technicolor, the companies said Thursday.

• To Cisco-backed Sensity, lights are just IoT waiting to happen

  Cisco Systems is tightening its relationship with Sensity Systems, a Silicon Valley startup that wants buildings and cities now adopting LED lighting to embrace the Internet of Things.

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  The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, July 3

  Windows 10 close to finished... Intel reshuffles leadership... Microsoft, Kyocera strike Android patent licensing deal... and more tech news

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  Cisco leaves key to all its Unified CDM systems under doormat

  Cisco Systems recently realized that its Unified Communications Domain Manager (Unified CDM) software contains a default privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed, exposing the platform to hacking by remote attackers.

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  IT firms' Cloud appetite strong as gear sales surge 25 per cent

  In another sign of the movement of more and more data into Cloud services, global first-quarter sales of Cloud-related hardware rose 25.1 per cent year-on-year, to nearly $US6.3 billion, according to an IDC survey.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, July 1

  Court says NSA can keep collecting phone records... Vandals cut cables again... Leap second largely trouble-free... and more tech news

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  Cisco plans to buy security-as-a-service provider OpenDNS

  Cisco Systems plans to pay $US635 million in cash to buy OpenDNS, a company that leverages the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide security services including Web filtering, threat intelligence and malware and phishing protection.

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  Cisco says its IoT parts are now a whole

  The Internet of Things System that Cisco Systems introduced on Monday at long last ties together a broad range of IoT parts from the company, but users may want to take a close look at what this really gives them.

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  Cisco warns of default SSH keys shipped in three products

  Cisco Systems said on Thursday it released a patch for three products that shipped with default encryption keys, posing a risk that an attacker with the keys could decrypt data traffic.

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  The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, June 11

  Google gets on smart cities bandwagon... eBay, PayPal hit a nerve with robocall provision in use terms... Spotify arms for battle with Apple... and more tech news.