Re: Uh oh - more Cisco problems
- From: Dogers <dogers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:53:23 +0000
But they are! It's HARDware! Grrr, hard things! Solid as a rock, matey! ;)
The problem isn't just that they don't update, it's that you need magic
pixie powder to update Cisco stuff. Or rather, someone who knows Cisco stuff
and (more importantly!) how to navigate their website!
IIRC you have to download chunks of the firmware/OS and upload them bit by
bit over TFTP. It's madness!
Andrew
On 03/11/05, Thomas W Shinder <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> Hi Andrew,
> But the problem goes even deeper than that. Because "hardware" firewall
> guys think their devices are immune from disease (unlike the TB ridden
> carcasses of Windows devices), they never update their devices, and Syphco
> feeds into that mindset by not providing an automated approach to updating
> their devices.
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> *From:* Dogers [mailto:dogers@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:26 AM
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> *Subject:* [isalist] Re: Uh oh - more Cisco problems
>
> http://www.ISAserver.org On 03/11/05, Paul Nuernberger <
> pen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> >
> > Check it out.
> >
> > http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1
> >
> > 140183,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=533036
> >
>
> A Windows bot that looks for badly set up Cisco devices.. Nice :)
>
> They've also only *just* fixed the flaw in their devices that was made
> known at the black hat conference earlier this year, if you can remember
> that far back.
>
> Andrew
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