7/29/2005
Cisco, Researchers and Blackhat
This is the WSJ version of a story that’s been getting a lot of chatter lately -
LAS VEGAS – The annual Black Hat computer-security conference has become a forum for experts to disclose vulnerabilities in tech products, often rankling the products’ makers. But few companies go to the lengths that Cisco Systems Inc. did this week to suppress information about a flaw in its software that directs Internet traffic.
Cisco threatened legal action to stop the conference’s organizers from allowing a 24-year-old researcher for a rival tech firm to discuss how he says hackers could seize control of Cisco’s Internet routers, which dominate the market. Cisco also instructed workers to tear 20 pages outlining the presentation from the conference program and ordered 2,000 CDs containing the presentation destroyed. [full WSJ story]
You can follow the links wherever your interests take you. It’s all over the news.
If you want to see the presentation that stirred up all the furor, it’s discretely online here.
Filed by Ken at 2:59 pm under InfoSec, Technology
The story is very nearly a self-writing, modern morality play. No wonder it’s all over the news.