UK-Bug : Cisco DoS risk halts BT's ADSL service

UK Broadband Usergroup News.

BTWholesale are today continuing to monitor the situation with their
Cisco routers due to a potential DoS risk. Cisco Systems released a
security advisory on 18th July whereby Denial of Service attacks could
be launched against Cisco branded routers by way of sending specific
packets. This could cause the interface to cease processing of
further [legitimate] packets.

http://shorl.com/batutysonodra

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Andy Jenkins
UK Broadband Usergroup : http://www.uk-bug.net

Andy Jenkins wrote:
> UK Broadband Usergroup News.
>
> BTWholesale are today continuing to monitor the situation with their
> Cisco routers due to a potential DoS risk. Cisco Systems released a
> security advisory on 18th July whereby Denial of Service attacks could
> be launched against Cisco branded routers by way of sending specific
> packets. This could cause the interface to cease processing of
> further [legitimate] packets.

Any every ISP in the world has been applying filters or upgrading their
IOS to cope with this. Why are BT making such a fuss?

IMHO they have been using this as a "convenient excuse" for all sorts of
things which have nothing to do with it over the last couple of days.

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