Black Hat: Cisco to be Under Scrutiny Again

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Heads-up.

Via NetworkWorld.

[snip]

Cisco's products will again come under scrutiny again at this year's
Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off later this month in Las
Vegas.

Conference organizers say that 15 new exploits will be discussed at
this year's event and that two of them target Network Admission Control
and VoIP vulnerabilities that affect products from a number of vendors,
including Cisco.

Security researchers, no longer as focused on digging up bugs in core
Windows components, are looking for green fields, said Black Hat
Director Jeff Moss.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/071906-black-hat-cisco-to-be.html

- ferg


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