Cisco Warns of Stolen Web Site Passwords

An anonymous reader writes "Cisco warned customers today that someone had broken in and stolen an untold number of passwords and usernames that its customers and employees use to login at Cisco.com, according stories at News.com and Washingtonpost.com. Cisco says the problem is unrelated to flaws in its hardware, but both stories note that Cisco's latest troubles are likely fallout from their legal battles with researcher Mike Lynn, who last week revealed major flaws in Cisco routers. There is also a growing thread at Nanog where network admins are complaining of not being able to get new passwords."

Comments

Re:I am not shocked at all.

[milktoastman]

UUUUHHHHHMMMMM....GRRRRBLT! Okay, now that I got that out, let me see, uhm, TROLL? :) But no hard feelings, okay? Unless I really think I might want to learn something about a slashdot article's subject matter, I think troll's are the best part of the comment tree. I laugh my branches down, snacka!

easy enough...

[John Seminal]

these password thefts are crimes. throw the bastards who did it in jail, and move on. the prosecutors should ask everyone who lost hours of work to call in, so they can get an estimate to the damages.

there are two choices. make stuff easy, with very little security. or make things difficult with good security. no matter what choice a comany picks, that should have no bearing on criminal prosecutions. just because site #1 is easier to break into does not mean the punishment should be less for breaking into it.

we either punish thieves, or everyone will have to start carring around time-watch-algorithm generators for when they want to log into their accounts.

okay, i commented on the story. now here is what i really want to talk to the slashdot crowd about. check this out, i went to search for kazaa, just to see if it was still around, and i got this from google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=kaza a&spell=1

what makes it so interesting is the notice at the bottom of the page:

In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.

is google now censoring what websites it returns in search requests? is the next great search engine going to be housed outside the USA? and where will good people get their non-copywrited music from?? even emp3world is filled with broken links.