Cisco: Hey, IT depts. You're all malware hosts

  • 24 April 2014
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Security report also notes skills shortage

By Richard Chirgwin, 24 Apr 2014  Everybody – at least every multinational that Cisco checked out for its 2014 Annual Security Report – is hosting malware of some kind, and there aren't enough security professionals to go around.
 
Along with its Managed Threat Defense service launched this week, Cisco also launched the latest publication (here with registration) of its security survey. The study claims that “100 percent of companies [in the report's sample – El Reg] are calling malicious malware hosts”.
 Cisco also believes that the length of time that such activity persists means that network penetrations are going undetected.
 
The research comes from a decent whack of statistics, according to the company's description of its sampling, which each day covers 16 billion Web requests, 93 billion e-mails, 200,000 IP addresses, 400,000 malware samples, 33 million files from endpoints and 28 million network connections.
 
 
 
Full Article
 
 
Some very impressive statistics...that are also very scary!

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The following article is a update on Cisco Modem or Wireless Gateway
 
(Own a Cisco modem or wireless gateway? It might be owned by someone else, too)
 
By Shaun Nichols, 17 Jul 2014
 
A number of Cisco home network gateways have a security bug that allows attackers to hijack the devices remotely. A firmware update to close the hole is being rolled out to ISPs to deploy.
The networking giant said that certain Wireless Home Gateway products are vulnerable to a remote-code execution attack, which is triggered by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the web server running on the hardware.
Cisco said "the vulnerability is due to incorrect input validation for HTTP requests," which allows "an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exploit a buffer overflow and cause arbitrary code execution."
 
The Register/ full read here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/17/got_a_cisco_modem_or_router_a_patch_is_on_the_way/

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