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Cisco reacts to IOS Network rootkit presentation
A paper presented at a security conference in Europe over the weekend has Cisco and the security community debating the reality of rootkits over the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) network. Devices affected include routers and voice over IP phones.
At the EUSecWest conference in London, Core Security researcher Sebastian Muniz presented what he called the "Da IOS Rootkit," a binary modification to the IOS image. "The main feature of Da IOS Rootkit is the universal password," Muniz said in an interview on the EUSecWest Web site. "Every call to the different password validation routines … Read more
