Emergency reset: Cisco passwords

Opinion
Aug 3, 20051 min

See, I told ya Cisco shouldn’t have pissed off the entire hacking community by doing something so blatant as trying to withhold critical research information… Looks like Cisco.com took one in the chops. Thanks, John, for calling this to our attention. As of this morning, they’ve implemented a massive password reset operation and John hasn’t been able to log in. Here’s the story in Cisco’s words (complete with disclaimer, “This incident does not appear to be due to a weakness in Cisco products or technologies.”).

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Deb Radcliff is an investigative journalist and analyst focused on computer crime and security. Her work has appeared on Security Boulevard, the SANS Cyber Security Blog, and SC Media, among other outlets. She stood up an analyst program for SANS Institute and ran it for 15 years before joining the Cyber Risk Alliance as strategic analyst on the business intelligence unit. She is author of the popular cyber thriller series, “Breaking Backbones,” available at Amazon.

Deb won two Neal Awards for investigative business reporting. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose State University.

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