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Re: What to do if Cisco router & switches got hacked ?
From: "Nilesh Burghate" <nileshb () nii co in>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 02:01:06 +0530
Hi, In most of the cases, weak SNMP community strings on the routers and Swithes results in trivail hacking. There are tools available to brute force the SNMP community strings (Google for help) The links below are standard practices for securing routers http://www.nsa.gov/snac/cisco/guides/cis-1.pdf http://www.nsa.gov/snac/cisco/guides/cis-2.pdf THH, Nilesh P. Burghate, Systems Security Analyst, Network Intelligence India Pvt Ltd. Web: www.nii.co.in Tel: 91-22-22001530, 91-22-22006019 =============================== AuditPro for SQL Server http://www.nii.co.in/software/apsql.html =============================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "yfs us" <yfs_168us () yahoo com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:24 AM Subject: What to do if Cisco router & switches got hacked ?
Hi All, Just want to find out does anyone here came across the cisco switches & router got hacked. I'm not sure which one actually got hacked coz I'm not a security expert. I do notice that sometime my switches & router refuse to accept connection. But when I change to a new want every things work fine. I do ask the IBM technical support & they told me that it was hacked. So now once a week I need to call the IBM support to fix it. They usually replace it. I'm wondering how do I prevent these in the future. Besides these I too like to know how do I track the hacker ? I had mail my ISP & they reply please go & hire a security expert with a good qualification. Is these what one usually get if they need help from the ISP ? It looks like the ISP suck or they r the one who did it. Or time to change ISP. Does one really need to have a good qualification to hunt the hacker ? As far as I know everyone is a hacker the only different is some is good & some is lousy coz hacker r not born they too go thru a pain in the ass experince b4 they really call them self a elite haxor. All help r welcome. Cheers __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Current thread:
- RE: What to do if Cisco router & switches got hacked ? Daryl Davis (Jan 02)
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- Re: What to do if Cisco router & switches got hacked ? Jimi Thompson (Jan 05)
- Re: What to do if Cisco router & switches got hacked ? Nilesh Burghate (Jan 05)
- RE: What to do if Cisco router & switches got hacked ? Dan Bartley (Jan 05)