Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco security presentation

Fri Jul 29 15:56:40 UTC 2005

Would this not be a great way to infect thousands of
network operations systems due to a PDF exploit?  It
is like "free beer" to many network operators, they
just *have* to consume it.  One could take control
of the "network" by taking control of the systems
of the people operating it and silently watch
for the passwords, names, ip addresses that will
enable one to take control later.

I know, I am just being paranoid.  There has never
been an exploitable PDF exploit.  Oh, wait, there
has been :-)

One has to admit it would be one hell of a
combined social engineering and technical
exploit if it could be pulled off.

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:19 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Boing Boing: Michael Lynn's controversial Cisco 
> security presentation 
> 
> 
> 
> Over on Boing Boing:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Here's a PDF that purports to be Michael Lynn's presentation 
> on Cisco's critical vulnerabilities ("The Holy Grail: Cisco 
> IOS Shellcode And Exploitation Techniques"), delivered at 
> last week's Black Hat conference. Lynn's employer, ISS, 
> wouldn't let him deliver the talk (they'd been leant on by 
> Cisco), so Lynn quit his job, walked onstage and delivered it 
> anyway. (See yesterday's post and Scheneier's take for more). 
> 1.9MB PDF Link
> 
> [snip]
> 
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/29/michael_lynns_contro.html
> 
> I think these guys better prepare for the "slashdot effect"...
> 
> :-)
> 
> - ferg
> 
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
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