On 25 February 2009, Cisco has published three new security advisories, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct a DOS attack or a Remote control attack.
1) Multiple Vulnerabilities in the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module and Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine
The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module and Cisco ACE 4710 Application [...]

On February 16th, SuproNet, a local Czech provider, single-handedly caused a global Internet meltdown for upwards of an hour today. SuproNet accomplished this feat by sending out a rather unusual routing update, one which a lot of routers did not handle very well. The result was Internet bedlam.
“What we think happened next is the Internet [...]

Cisco has unveiled plans to bring its WebEx online meeting service to a new crop of smartphones.
The announcement, at Mobile World Congress, means users will be able to join Cisco WebEx Meeting Center web and audio conferences on smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Storm from RIM, the Nokia E71, Nokia [...]

In ”An introduction to SNMP” I have explained how SNMP protocol works and how use it; but what are the softwares that use SNMP to monitor network bandwith? HP Openview, Ciscoworks, MRTG are some examples.
In this article I will explain how monitor Cisco Switches/Routers bandwith under a Linux machine using a free open source tool: MRTG.
The Multi Router Traffic [...]

Not everyone knows that HSRP, a fault-tolerant default gateway protocol, has two versions: version 1 (the default) and version two. The second version was integrated from IOS Release 12.2(25)S.
HSRP Version 2 features:

It advertises and learns millisecond timer values. This change ensures stability of the HSRP groups in all cases.
It expands the group number range from 0 to 4095 [...]

Zloss has reported some vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks.

Input passed via the URL when executing commands is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s [...]

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs), Cisco Catalyst 6500 Wireless Services Modules (WiSMs), and Cisco Catalyst 3750 Integrated Wireless LAN Controllers. This security advisory outlines details of the following vulnerabilities:

Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (total of three)
Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

These vulnerabilities are independent of each other.

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