Cisco is playing down a security issue with its Smart Install switch management software that could allow unauthenticated access to customer configuration details. Cisco defines Smart Install as a ...
On Thursday, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recommended disabling the legacy Cisco Smart Install (SMI) feature after seeing it abused in recent attacks. CISA has ...
A Cisco Options Package (COP) file is a compressed file that contains all the dial plans and device information for a Cisco communications system. For the 1.8.0 release and beyond, the COP file is the ...
Cisco Talos, the cyber-security division of US IT conglomerate Cisco, said today that hackers are abusing misconfigured Cisco switches to gain a point of entry into organizations across the world. The ...
For the past few weeks attackers have been probing networks for switches that can potentially be hijacked using the Cisco Smart Install (SMI) protocol. Researchers from Cisco’s Talos team have now ...