By Ellen Messmer
Excerpt:
Cisco gear will also get pounded in another session with Core Security Technologies, which is expected to show how it's possible to install a rootkit on the Cisco IOS. A rootkit is code designed to hide from detection so someone can control processes without being noticed.
"This does assume you have access to the Cisco device because you are the administrator or somehow broke in," says Ivan Arce, chief technology officer at Core Security.
The Cisco IOS rootkit would give an attacker the ability to do things such as change how traffic passes through a Cisco device. "People don’t understand it's possible to have a rootkit on IOS," says Arce, adding that Cisco is aware of the research and earlier this year issued an advisory on it.
Source: Washingtonpost.com
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