Computer hackers worked through the weekend to expose a flaw that could allow an attacker to take control of the Cisco Systems routers that direct traffic across much of the Internet.
Angered and inspired by Cisco’s attempts to suppress news of the flaw earlier in the week, several computer security experts at the Defcon computer-security conference worked past midnight Saturday to discover and map out the vulnerability.
“The reason we’re doing this is because someone said you can’t,” said one hacker, who like the others spoke on condition of anonymity.
Submitted by: Trogan_1000
Source: ZDNet
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