Re: New cisco exploit published in the media today

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:37:29 +0200, Ariel Biener said:

I perfectly understand the need to make public the availability of this new cracking tool, but I do not understand why there was no mention of the fact it exploits bugs that are 1.5-3 years old, which would have put matters in the proper perspective, instead of trying to create commotion as if some immediate danger was hanging above our enterprise LANs.

Compare the potential eyeball count: "Exploit for 3 year old hole available" "Death of Internet Predicted. MPEGs at 11 (10:30 in Newfoundland)".