In Response To Mike Lynn's Presentation at Black Hat
Cisco respects and encourages the work of independent research scientists; however, we follow an industry established disclosure process for communicating to our customers and partners. It is important to note that the information presented at the Black Hat Conference today was not a disclosure of a new vulnerability or a flaw with Cisco IOS software. The research presented explores possible ways to expand exploitations of known security vulnerabilities impacting routers. As per Cisco's best practices guidelines, we recommend customers upgrade their software to the latest available versions. Customers should contact their account managers and sales engineers with questions and request for more information. For press inquiries, contact Mojgan Khalili (business press) 408-489-4015 or John Noh (industry trade press) 408-242-3852 For industry analyst inquiries, contact Lisa Caywood 408-857-3642
According to several conference organizers, Lynn had tentatively agreed not to give his talk under pressure from ISS and Cisco officials. On the way to Lynn's talk, a conference attendee showed me a video he recorded of Black Hat organizers tearing out the pages of Lynn's presentation from the conference materials in the hours before the books were handed out to attendees.
I beg someone with time or inclination to produce a Dashboard widget for Memestreams article and URL submissions. Between the new RSS reader in Safari and such a tool, you could see me become a very active poster.
