[AusNOG] Interesting - How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet

[Ben]

True. I wonder if criminal groups ever consider buying software engineers in
target companies, and paying them to insert Trojans?

 

From: Matthew Moyle-Croft [mailto:mmc at internode.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, 23 February 2009 11:03 AM
To: Ben
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Interesting - How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly
Crashed the Internet

 

 

On 23/02/2009, at 10:17 AM, Ben wrote:





What's interesting to me is that large vendors such as Cisco (USA), A-L
(France) and Huawei (China) have the opportunity to put all sorts of
bug/features into the code of their platforms.

 

If you put it in then the enemy is just as likely to be able to reverse
engineer it and use it against you anyway.   Where enemy may not be a
sovereign nation but a criminal group looking for money.

 

MMC

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