https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/02/cisco_vulnerabilities/
By Iain Thomson in San Francisco
The Register
2 May 2019
Right on cue, Cisco on Wednesday patched a security vulnerability in some of
its network switches that can be exploited by miscreants to commandeer the IT
equipment and spy on people.
This comes immediately after panic this week over a hidden Telnet-based
diagnostic interface was found in Huawei gateways. Although that vulnerability
was real, irritating, and eventually removed at Vodafone's insistence, it was
dubbed by some a hidden backdoor perfect for Chinese spies to exploit to snoop
on Western targets.
Which, of course, comes as America continues to pressure the UK and other
nations to outlaw the use of Huawei gear from 5G networks over fears Beijing
would use backdoors baked into the hardware to snatch Uncle Sam's intelligence.
Well, if a non-internet-facing undocumented diagnostic Telnet daemon is reason
enough to kick Huawei kit out of Western networks, surely this doozy from Cisco
is enough to hoof American equipment out of British, European and other non-US
infrastructure? Fair's fair, no?
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