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Cisco: Router Security Flaw Report Post-Black Hat Advisory

Dec 29, 2005 •

Benjamin D. Thomas

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One day after a security researcher and organizers of the Black Hat USA conference agreed not to post details of vulnerabilities in Cisco 's router software, the information has been published on the Internet.On Friday, the Web site Cryptome.org posted what appear to be slides written to accompany a presentation given by former Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) researcher Michael Lynn, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

The slides had been published in conference materials for the show, but after a last-minute decision by ISS to cancel the presentation, they were literally ripped from the Black Hat books.

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