Ted Roche’s weblog

Wow. Someone was asleep at the switch. Slashdot reports Cisco Products Have Backdoors
Cbs228 writes “A Cisco Security Advisory released yesterday admits that “A default username/password pair is present in all releases of the Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) software. A user who logs in using this username has complete control [...]

An interesting article on the Witty worm, remarkable in several ways: small size (637 bytes!), speed and method of propogation (launched from a bot network, done in 45 minutes) and destructiveness. While the author writes “Let’s hope that the Witty worm was just an anomaly, an exception…,” this could also be an indication that [...]