back to article Telnet, SSH prod of death smashes Cisco broadband boxes offline

Cisco has issued six software updates to address security vulnerabilities in its networking products, ranging from denial of service conditions to authentication bypasses. The most serious of the flaws is the authentication bypass hole in the Cisco Meeting Server. Cisco warns that, due to improper handling of XMPP messaging, a …

  1. Crazy Operations Guy

    "disrupt connections by constantly pinging the router with Telnet"

    Can someone tell me why the fuck any piece of equipment still uses telnet? This goes doubly for something connected directly to the internet. Whoever decides to include telnet code in anything should be taken out back and shot immediately.

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