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Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the right-where-it-hurts dept.

Jack writes "Cisco is suffering from a serious flaw in its router operating system, which might allow execution of remote code: 'Cisco has warned of a new flaw in its IOS router operating system which might be used by attackers to launch denial of service attacks or take over IOS-based devices. The flaw causes to buffer overflow due to incorrect handling of user authentication credentials.'"

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  1. Latest Viruses by ChrisGilliard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The latest viruses are getting pretty creepy. On the public network where I work, we recently plugged a Windows XP laptop in that had just been installed without anti-virus. There are apparently so many viruses going around on our network that within 10 minutes, the computer had 12 viruses that were picked up just through viruses that connect in remotely through ports that have not been "firewalled". This explains why I use Solaris or Linux for my desktop system.

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