Cisco warns miscreants are crippling IOS XR network gear over the internet with memory black-holes. No patch yet

Cisco has warned hackers are crashing or crippling its networking kit out in the field by black-holing all available memory via specially crafted IGMP packets. To pull this off, miscreants are exploiting CVE-2020-3566, a vulnerability that can be abused by "an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust process memory of an …

[Anonymous Coward]

silly paranoid liberals

demonrats scared their secrets will be exposed. goofy whacks.

[martinusher]

Re: silly paranoid liberals

Its been done before. It doesn't hurt to be careful, especially in the current social climate. I don't think there are any 'secrets' but if you read local news outlets you can see an almost desperate search for scandal -- I'd guess its the pressing need to find something that could be pointed to ("see, they're as bad as we are....").

Like a lot of generic Americans (to quote one older lady) "I'll vote for a potato over Trump". You don't have to be a Democrat, or even a demonrat, to recognize that we're not doing that well as things are at the moment.

[Unicornpiss]

Re: silly paranoid liberals

Um, if we're speaking of paranoia, how's that investigation of Obama bugging Trump's campaign headquarters from the last election going?

[Anonymous Coward]

No need to dump the old backdoored ZTE mobile hotspot, there's plenty of modern Cisco and Juniper equipment sold today with backdoors for the NSA/CIA & FBI.

ECHELON needs help, can't do it by magic!

[Unicornpiss]

It begs the question..

Who would want to date one of the "clean cut" republicans that isn't another oh so wholesome republican?