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$Adding Drones to Your DR Plan; Collision Avoidance (Orbital, not Wi-Fi) Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Ciscos Integrated Management Controller. In the news, Verizon settles patent litigation over IoT antenna technology, Cato Networks lets customers purchase individual services within its SASE offering, and Azure adds private application gateways that dont require a public IP address. Thouands of F5 Big-IP instances are still vulnerable to a known exploit despite a 2025 patch, AWSs facility in Bahrain suffers another drone attack and Iran releases a list of big tech companies it says it will target, and security researchers uncover flaws in Google Clouds Vertex AI platform that could expose sensitive data. In our space updates, SpaceX files for a public offering, SpaceX and Amazon squabble over collision avoidance (the orbital kind, not the Wi-Fi kind), and Outlook bugs follow Artemis astronauts to the moon. AdSpot Sponsor: NANOG 97 NANOG, the North American Network Operators Group, meets three times a year, and the next meeting is NANOG 97 in Bellevue, WA, June 1-3, 2026. Register today at nanog.org. Links: Cisco Integrated Management Controller Authentication Bypass Vulnerability - https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-20093/ Cisco Integrated Management Controller Authentication Bypass Vulnerability - https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cimc-auth-bypass-AgG2BxTn Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs published since 2026-03-27 - https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/published_since-2026-03-27/?page=1&order=3 Fractus and Verizon settle patent litigation - https://www.fractus.com/fractus-and-verizon-settle-patent-litigation/ Cato Networks Unveils Modular Adoption Model for AI-Native Cybersecurity Platform - https://www.catonetworks.com/news/cato-introduces-modular-adoption-model-ai-native-sase-platform/ General Availability of Private Application Gateway on Azure Application Gateway v2 - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/%F0%9F%9A%80-general-availability-of-private-application-gateway-on-azure-application-gate/4508294 Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances still exposed to RCE attacks - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-14-000-f5-big-ip-apm-instances-still-exposed-to-rce-attacks/ K000156741: BIG-IP APM vulnerability CVE-2025-53521 - https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000156741 CVE-2025-53521 Detail - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53521 AWS Bahrain Region disrupted by ongoing conflict - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws-bahrain-region-middle-east-conflict Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5809104-iran-irgc-apple-microsoft-google-hp-meta-tesla/ List of companies threatened to be targeted: Cisco HP Intel Oracle Microsoft Apple Google Meta IBM Dell Palantir Nvidia J.P. Morgan Tesla General Electric Spire Solutions G42 Boeing Vertex AI Vulnerability Exposes Google Cloud Data and Private Artifacts - https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/vertex-ai-vulnerability-exposes-google.html Double Agents: Exposing Security Blind Spots in GCP Vertex AI - https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/double-agents-vertex-ai/ Resources, service accounts, and service agents - https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/general/access-control#resources SpaceX quietly files for big bang IPO - https://spacenews.com/spacex-quietly-files-for-big-bang-ipo/ SpaceX and Amazon spar over satellite deployments - https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-amazon-spar-over-satellite-deployments/ Network Break is part of the Packet Pushers network. Visit our website to find more great networking and technology podcasts, along with tutorial videos, the Human Infrastructure newsletter, and loads more resources for building your IT career. https://packetpushers.net$