Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques

Tue Jul 22 21:00:22 UTC 2003

It could poll different looking glasses...  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex at yuriev.com [mailto:alex at yuriev.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:01 PM
> To: Austad, Jay
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques
> 
> 
> > I was thinking about this the other day.  The most 
> efficient way to make
> > this work would be to spread using some vulnerability (like 
> the Microsoft
> > DCOM vulnerability released last week), and then at a 
> predetermined time,
> > start DoS'ing routers in the IP space of major providers, 
> and then work your
> > way towards the "edges."  
> 
> Pray tell, the virus will also get BGP feeds to determine 
> where the edges
> are?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 