Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

Sat Jul 30 07:32:11 UTC 2005

On 30/07/05, Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek at bgp4.net> wrote:
> 
> If a worm writer wanted to cause chaos, they wouldn't target 2500s, but
> 7200s, 7600s, GSRs, etc.
> 

That's like saying "nobody will write windows trojans to infect tiny
PCs, they'll go after big fat *nix servers with rootkits"

Something as simple as a default enable password :)  I wonder how many
routers out there have open telnet access and enable set to "cisco" or
"password123" :)

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)