Re: news story and router passwords

[none none <tricomsecurity () HOTMAIL COM>]

Yeah, you can recovery password on Cisco, but you need to have fisical
access to the router on cisco website they explain how to do it.
sorry for my english.




> From: Vitaly Osipov <vos () TELENOR CZ>
> Reply-To: Vitaly Osipov <vos () TELENOR CZ>
> To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: news story and router passwords
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:35:43 +0200
>
> Hello all,
>
> I think everybody knows that media reporting on hackers and their tools is,
> ehm, very improper :)
> I've read one article recently
>  http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz1012d.htm  ) in which it is clamed
> that some hacker after sniffing router password changed it and made
> *something* after that they were not able to recover that password. Have
> somebody heard of such problems (it looks like they were using cisco,
> because they say  - "If this guy posts how he actually did this, the whole
> Internet's wide open." )? AFAIK ciscos have password recovery procedures,
> at
> least those which are not low-end.
>
> Frankly speaking I'd suppose that they just did not back up their config :)
> (because it looks like they even did not use access-lists etc.)
>
> regards,
> Vitaly.

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