Cisco News Alert Special Issue: Furor over Cisco IOS router exploit erupts at Black Hat

Cisco News Alert: Special Issue, 07/28/05
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Furor over Cisco IOS router exploit erupts at Black Hat
By Ellen Messmer, Network World, 07/28/05

Although Cisco and Internet Security Systems had abruptly cancelled
a planned technical talk and demo at the Black Hat Conference to
reveal how unpatched Cisco routers can be remotely compromised,
the researcher who had originally uncovered the problem went ahead
with the talk anyway, igniting a spate of lawsuits against himself
and the Black Hat Conference.

Michael Lynn, the research analyst at ISS who was asked to resign
after his presentation detailing how an attacker can exploit flaws
in unpatched Cisco routers to gain total control over them, said
he felt compelled to reveal the information because "I felt I had
to do what's right for the country and the national infrastructure."

Cisco and ISS, claiming it was premature to release the research,
saw it differently and immediately filed a lawsuit aimed at
compelling him not to discuss the subject further. The Black Hat
Conference was also served with a lawsuit by the two companies for
allowing Lynn to discuss the exploits associated with Cisco routers.

Full story:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072805-cisco-black-hat.html?nl
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