[31715] in North American Network Operators' Group
router damaged by cracker?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai Schlichting)
Thu Oct 12 11:09:24 2000
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:07:24 -0400
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From: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>
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If we assume that the router mentioned in the following cracking incident
is a popular model we all use: what other than zapping the FlashROM could
this attacker have done? We all know that <big popular vendor>'s firmware
source code has hit the pirate BBS's a year or two back : could someone have
compiled a rogue image that can actually fry some router components (I can
think of plenty of nasty things with serial ports transmitting too fast
for their own good - and burn the driver chips) ?
http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz1012d.htm
