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NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
- Subject: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches
- From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:28:26 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CADb1SusoPKF0n0rhazJ0GKMLLQMh=-EL83ruzu6cyuoVp4L2jA@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
On Dec 30, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> The quality of this data is too damn low.
The #1 way that Cisco routers and switches are compromised is brute-forcing against an unsecured management plane, with username 'cisco' and password 'cisco.
The #1 way that Juniper and switches are compromised is brute-forcing against an unsecured management plane, with username 'cisco' and password 'cisco.
;>
Note that both Cisco and Juniper have many platforms, running on various hardware, and running various OSes/trains/releases/throttles
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