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Mike Lynn publicly released flaws to Cisco routers and presented at the Black Hat and Defcon 13. Cisco gnashes of teeth and tries to hide the flaw. Cisco site recently hacked. The plot thickens... [Read More]

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John

Did you accept the IE water bottle? If you did, shame on you...

Deb Radcliff

Right I accepted the bottle. Must of cost them about $2.50 to produce. A real collector's item! And I went to the party at Pure and the Tangerine, both hosted by Microsoft. I even ate some of their food and drank three or four of my non-alcoholic beverages consisting of cranberry and grapefruit juice with a splash of soda. Probably worth another $20 or so. So I guess that means I've been bribed for hmm about $22.50, eh?

Shame shame shame, huh?

John

It looks as though Cisco really did take a page from MS. They just had some kind of security incident - they have had to reset ALL their CCO user login passwords.

John

It looks as though Cisco really did take a page from MS. They just had some kind of security incident - they have had to reset ALL their CCO user login passwords.

Axel Eble

Forgive the shameless self-promotion but I had sent emails to Cisco and ISS with a couple of questions. ISS came back today with answers (well, more or less, as much as can be expected under the circumstances, I guess). It makes an interesting read.

Deb Radcliff

Not shameless at all. It's the typical party line and says no more than what we already know, but at least they responded to you!

Axel Eble

Indeed. I think they managed to steer clear (but only barely) of the barrage. Which is kinda interesting since they are actively pursuing everyone hosting any document related to Lynn's presentation. Must be the lawyers at it :)

Anon

CISCO/ISS may have dropped their lawsuits but the FBI is still investigating last I heard. Since when is it the FBI's business to investigate CIVIL lawsuits????? Abuse of something.

Axel Eble

Anon: they're investigating whether Lynn broke criminal law.

rob

I thought CCIE's were like sub-gods. They should have used their powers to know not the "F" with an army of Gray & Black Hats. Bad mojo.

P.s. Linking is not illegal:
www.cryptocrome.org/lynn-cisco.zip

Hell yes we saw it coming

Hey, Rob. Nice to hear from ya again. Yes, as I said in first blog about the Cisco fiasco, the hackers were talking Zero day. Then in next post, we showed hackers hit Cisco on Monday. They had to reset all their Cisco.com passwords. What's next? I think they're going to continue pounding away at Cisco IOS to release a working exploit.

Meanwhile, ISS continues to wage legal wars against document posters and am wondering if Cisco's behind this, or if ISS is freaked that Cisco might sue them for breech of contract.

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