Black Hat wrangling

Network World Test Alliance member Rodney Thayer joins the program from the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas to discuss the legal wrangling of researcher Michael Lynn. A former ISS staffer, Lynn exposed a previously unknown exploit for Cisco IOS, the core operating system for many of its popular routers, and landed himself in hot water.

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Network World Test Alliance member Rodney Thayer joins the program from the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas to discuss the legal wrangling of researcher Michael Lynn. A former ISS staffer, Lynn exposed a previously unknown exploit for Cisco IOS, the core operating system for many of its popular routers, and landed himself in hot water.

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Show notes

• Cisco exploit revealed
  
• Legal settlement reached
  
• Lynn speaks out
  
• Vulnerability reporting guidelines from the Organization for Internet Safety

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