CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen

Sun May 16 08:54:09 UTC 2004

You do not have to steal the code, you can buy a cisco
router from an equipment reseller and have all the
access you want.....

-Henry

--- Alexei Roudnev <alex at relcom.net> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, it's all interesting. EFnet IRC again...
> 
> Does anyone have a full logs of EFnet IRC
> conversations? We used to
> participate in it 6 years ago (when fighting hackes
> in Russia),
> and it was very useful for following trends (of
> course, after you dump a
> heaps of junk).
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michel Py"
> <michel at arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
> To: "John Kinsella" <jlk at thrashyour.com>;
> <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:45 PM
> Subject: RE: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
> 
> 
> 
> Rough translation of:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45221.html
> 
> May, 15 2004
> 
> Leak of code CiSCO IOS source code?
> 
> As it became known to SecurityLab, the source code
> of operating system
> CISCO IOS 12.3, 12.3t, which is used in the majority
> of Cisco network
> devices has been stolen on May 13, 2004. The total
> volume of the stolen
> information represents about 800MB in an archive
> file.
> 
> According to the information available to us, the
> leak of fragments of
> the source code occurred because of a break-in into
> the corporate
> network of Cisco System.
> 
> Representatives of Cisco System have not made any
> comments about the
> break-in so far.
> 
> A person whose alias on *darknet at EFnet IRC is
> "franz" has given a small
> parts of the source code (about 2.5 Mb) as proof.
> 
> Below are links to the first 100 first lines of
> source code of:
> 
> ipv6_tcp.c:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45222.html
> 
> ipv6_discovery_test.c:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45223.html
> 
> 