SAN JOSE, Calif. - A day after Cisco Systems Inc. warned of a serious software flaw in networking gear that routes Internet traffic, researchers said hackers had figured how to cripple the equipment.
There were no immediate reports of outages, but that was expected to change, the Computer Emergency Response Team, a taxpayer-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, said Friday in an advisory.
"This exploit allows an attacker to interrupt the normal operation of a vulnerable device," the CERT advisory said. "We believe it is likely that intruders will begin using this or other exploits to cause service outages."
No shit? I bet they report the Pope will wear a funny hat next.
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