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Cisco IOS Source Code Theft Story Continues
securitas writes "eWEEK's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the source code for Cisco's 'main networking device operating system was stolen on Thursday' (May 13) according to the Russian company SecurityLab. SecurityLab says that criminals broke into Cisco's network and stole 800MB of source code for IOS 12.3 and IOS 12.3t, a pre-release variant. The purported culprit(s) then bragged about the feat in an IRC session and offered 2.5 MB of the code as proof. Industry analysts Dell'Oro Group says that 'Cisco owns 62 percent of the core router market.' More at the Sydney Morning Herald and Windows Network magazine." Our original coverage was here of this story.
The thing that annoys me most is how Cisco is going to handle this.
I bought one of their home/soho routers, the "cheap" $300 one. I wanted more meat to my home broadband than what Linksys had to offer.
The day after I buy it I find out that the software is out of date and there are upgrades. Am I able to get them? Nope. I have to pay an extra $100/year to just get the software updates.
Needless to say, this will be the last Cisco product I own.
Considering the small form factor PCs out there, custom Linux firewall is in the works.