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.

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This is why staying current is bad

[Anonymous Coward]

My routers run IOS 9, the desktops run Windows 95 and we use IE 4.

Nobody has released an exploit for these things in ages, my costs are very low and I can buy 200 MB computers for a song when something breaks.

Another upside is I don't have to worry about patching things, because none have been produced for years!