According to Silicon.com, Cisco is advising customers to update passwords for the company's web portal following a security breach reported this morning.


The company has admitted that the compromise could expose customer passwords but gave no further details of the cause of the problem.


In a press statement, Cisco said: "It has been brought to our attention that there is an issue in a Cisco.com search tool that could expose passwords for registered users.

"As a result, to protect our registered Cisco.com users, we're taking the proactive step of resetting Cisco.com passwords. Needless to say we're investigating the incident which does not appear to be due to a weakness in our security products and technologies or with our network infrastructure."

The company also stressed on its website that the incident appears unrelated to flaws in Cisco products.