6 Days After Advisory Posted, AboveNet Gets Hit
L. Taylor - May 18, 2000

Event Summary

On April 19th, Cisco announced a security advisory to patch bug CSCdr10025 which allows access to its Catalyst Switches through the use of a default password. On April 20th, SecurityFocus reposted this advisory on their website. On April 25, AboveNet suffered a crippling network attack when someone compromised their network, and disabled several critical backbone switches by logging on and exploiting this bug...