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Cisco to be under scrutiny again at Black Hat

computerworld.com — Cisco Systems Inc.'s products will again come under scrutiny at this year's Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off later this month in Las Vegas. Conference organizers say that 15 new exploits will be discussed at this year's event and that two of them target NAC (Network Admission Control).

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  • osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Cisco itself is a platinum sponsor at the show, and Microsoft employees will be speaking at a track devoted entirely to the company's upcoming Windows Vista operating system."

    It sounds like a fun party though.
  • godsdesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am interested to see what comes out of the Blackhat talks on NAC. The current systems out there do have deficiencies but the companies (such as Cisco) are working fast to fix them. If it doesn't kill us it will hopefully make us stronger.
  • pyrates, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You were never safe on a mac, you were just under the radar, that's all.
  • gclef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I looked into NAC as part of my work, and I'm not sure NAC-style applications will *ever* work. I suspect the types of problems that will be presented at BlackHat will come up again and again. The problem is, NAC systems rely on the end-hosts telling the truth. There's no guarantee that the hosts will do any such thing if they've been hacked. Even the simplest NAC systems, which are only using NAC to verify a host MAC address against a database of info about your hosts, have problems (MACs are re-programmable).

    I'm not sure there is a single aspect of NAC that will stand up to a host compromise situation. So, it isn't clear how they're useful, honestly.
  • madnos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think this is great. Good things always come out of research and Michael Lynn had one heck of a presentation last year. I am very excited to see what is discussed this year.

    As for Mac's, well you will never be safe as long as your on a computer that has access to the Internet. :)
  • zweben, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"You were never safe on a mac, you were just under the radar, that's all."

    Wouldn't that make you safe? Here's a good read for you: http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/broken_windows
  • unclejemima, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Let the persecution begin
  • benkoe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Ah great, now they want to hack the telephones and infrastructure just when I thought I was safe on a Mac.

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