It had to happen eventually - the movement of very public hacks of computer networking to the backbone of the internet: Cisco. Microsoft has been beaten and abused over the years over security issues. Ok, so maybe that is what it took to get them to ship server software with defaults for "some" security rather than "no" security!!
YESTERDAY A MICROSOFT FLAW, TODAY A CISCO FLAW
Cisco, which makes communications routers and switches, has found a flaw in its software that could be used by network vandals to cause widespread outages; the company has released a free patch to fix the flaw in its Internetworking Operating System. No vandals have exploited the vulnerability up to this point, and Cisco says: 'We literally have people working around the clock right now to get this situation taken care of.' According to the company, the vulnerability could only be exploited by sending a 'rare sequence' of data packets to a device running IOS, the equivalent of Windows for routers and switches. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 17 Jul 2003) "
Source: NewsScan Daily: July 18, 2003
YESTERDAY A MICROSOFT FLAW, TODAY A CISCO FLAW
Cisco, which makes communications routers and switches, has found a flaw in its software that could be used by network vandals to cause widespread outages; the company has released a free patch to fix the flaw in its Internetworking Operating System. No vandals have exploited the vulnerability up to this point, and Cisco says: 'We literally have people working around the clock right now to get this situation taken care of.' According to the company, the vulnerability could only be exploited by sending a 'rare sequence' of data packets to a device running IOS, the equivalent of Windows for routers and switches. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 17 Jul 2003) "
Source: NewsScan Daily: July 18, 2003