[82724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco cover up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Owen)
Thu Jul 28 13:45:36 2005
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:39:10 -0400
From: Mark Owen <mr.markowen@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Mark Owen <mr.markowen@gmail.com>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@politrix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0507271644440.29053@kungfunix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7/27/05, J. Oquendo <sil@politrix.org> wrote:
> Complete PR disaster? Maybe they're still working on the fix and didn't
> want those on the blackhat scene to have a glimpse of how they intended o=
n
> fixing things. I wonder if this has exploit_foo_bar has anything to do
> with their code being stolen earlier this year was it, or late last year.
> Maybe for the geeks in you, it may be a PR disaster, but I doubt their
> stock price will come down much. Oddly I wonder if those in gov are
> watching closely to those who are running around shorting Cisco stock. Or
> should that be: "sh0rt1ng c1sc0 st0ck!@$"
Cisco had the exploit fixed in April and no longer offers the
exploitable OS for download on their site.
--=20
Mark Owen
