Re: Router worm exploiting poor SNMP security.

[Joe Shaw <jshaw () INSYNC NET>]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Ralph Moonen wrote:

> Don't forget that IOS11.2's source is floating around in hackerland. It
> would be completely possible to create a new/trojaned/alternative IOS
> load for cisco's and upload it. Given enough time, it should be
> possible to 0wn a substantial part of the Internet

I think there are probably less than a handful of talented black-hats in
the world that could/would do something like hack their own version of IOS
together, and they are probably capable of doing things much more
dangerous with less effort than this.  Still, I guess the possibility is
there.

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Joseph W. Shaw
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