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Story: Cisco flaw creates an opening for insider attacks

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Although Cisco have stated that this flaw is only exploitable by insiders, I have been shown many other ways that hackers use to gain access. I employed the services of Paul Brereton who is considered to be one of the foremost security experts in europe and it took him less than 5 minutes to break in using exploits that are not even known to the public. My router was hardened and had all known patches installed. How these companies manage to release such weak hardware or software is beyond me.

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