[59803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Jul 22 09:40:38 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:40:02 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* adamm@sihope.com (Adam Maloney) [Tue 22 Jul 2003, 15:33 CEST]:
> The next worm taking advantage of the latest Windows' vulnerabilities
> is more or less inevitable. Someone somewhere has to be writing it.
> So why not include the cisco exploit in the worm payload?
Why would a worm disable a vital component on its path to new infections?
-- Niels.
