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Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen

  • From: Henry Linneweh
  • Date: Sun May 16 04:56:03 2004

You do not have to steal the code, you can buy a cisco
router from an equipment reseller and have all the
access you want.....


-Henry




--- Alexei Roudnev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, it's all interesting. EFnet IRC again...
> 
> Does anyone have a full logs of EFnet IRC
> conversations? We used to
> participate in it 6 years ago (when fighting hackes
> in Russia),
> and it was very useful for following trends (of
> course, after you dump a
> heaps of junk).
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michel Py"
> <[email protected]>
> To: "John Kinsella" <[email protected]>;
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:45 PM
> Subject: RE: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
> 
> 
> 
> Rough translation of:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45221.html
> 
> May, 15 2004
> 
> Leak of code CiSCO IOS source code?
> 
> As it became known to SecurityLab, the source code
> of operating system
> CISCO IOS 12.3, 12.3t, which is used in the majority
> of Cisco network
> devices has been stolen on May 13, 2004. The total
> volume of the stolen
> information represents about 800MB in an archive
> file.
> 
> According to the information available to us, the
> leak of fragments of
> the source code occurred because of a break-in into
> the corporate
> network of Cisco System.
> 
> Representatives of Cisco System have not made any
> comments about the
> break-in so far.
> 
> A person whose alias on *[email protected] IRC is
> "franz" has given a small
> parts of the source code (about 2.5 Mb) as proof.
> 
> Below are links to the first 100 first lines of
> source code of:
> 
> ipv6_tcp.c:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45222.html
> 
> ipv6_discovery_test.c:
> http://www.securitylab.ru/45223.html
> 
>