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Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:02:11 +0530


On 30/07/05, Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek () bgp4 net> wrote:

If a worm writer wanted to cause chaos, they wouldn't target 2500s, but
7200s, 7600s, GSRs, etc.


That's like saying "nobody will write windows trojans to infect tiny
PCs, they'll go after big fat *nix servers with rootkits"

Something as simple as a default enable password :)  I wonder how many
routers out there have open telnet access and enable set to "cisco" or
"password123" :)

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)


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