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Cisco reveals its "backdoor" *wink wink nudge nudge*
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Interesting article:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707...username.shtml
Any of you system admins out there with Cisco hardware should give this a serious read.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707...username.shtml
Any of you system admins out there with Cisco hardware should give this a serious read.
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Wow.
How dumb is this? You'd think that in this day and age with all of these security fears we've got going around, Cisco of all places, which offers a FREAKING INTERNET SECURITY CERTIFICATION would have thought better than to hard-code a username/password pair into their firmware.
Ah well... at least they released a patch... :rolleyes:
How dumb is this? You'd think that in this day and age with all of these security fears we've got going around, Cisco of all places, which offers a FREAKING INTERNET SECURITY CERTIFICATION would have thought better than to hard-code a username/password pair into their firmware.
Ah well... at least they released a patch... :rolleyes:
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APC has done the same thing too. It is really disturbing that these big companies would include such backdoors. All it takes is one disgruntled employee to cause a lot of havoc. Sure, the developers of the systems would know of bugs, and other exploits as they did create the product, but setting up a straight-forward backdoor is a bit much.
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Agreed. One disgruntled employee (bad apple) can spoil the lot. Why would they include it in their hardware? Sounds like leaving the key underneath the doormat if you know what I mean...and then putting up a sign with an arrow that points under the mat and says "key" (pink neon, blink blink, blinkety blink)
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