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Date: Thu Aug  4 19:06:28 2005
From: frank at knobbe.us (Frank Knobbe)
Subject: taking their revenge @ cisco

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Holstein wrote:
>      * This incident does not appear to be due to a weakness in Cisco 
> products or technologies.
> 
> (gotta love that last bullet)

And that's probably correct. I doubt they got the password due to a
router flaw. Doesn't Cisco use Oracle as their backend DB for their
websites? That would certainly explain the weak DB security....

Ooooh.... Cisco suing Oracle. Now that'd be fun to watch.

Cheers,
Frank


-- 
Ciscogate: Shame on Cisco. Double-Shame on ISS.
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