[pchelpers] News:Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers
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- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:49:12 +1200
By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 05/14/2008
A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for
Cisco's routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on
the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, developed
the software, which he will unveil on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference
in London.
Rootkits are stealthy programs that cover up their tracks on a computer,
making them extremely hard to detect. To date, the vast majority of
rootkits have been written for the Windows operating system, but this
will mark the first time that someone has discussed a rootkit written
for IOS, the Internetwork Operating System used by Cisco's routers. "An
IOS rootkit is able to perform the tasks that any other rootkit would do
on desktop computer operating systems," Muniz said in an e-mail interview.
More here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051408-hacker-writes-rootkit-for-ciscos.html?t51hb
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