Cisco Flaws and Disclosure Issues

A security researcher at ISS by the name of Michael Lynn has supposedly discovered a major issue with Cisco’s IOS Operating System. He has evidently deemed it such a huge flaw that it could potentially effect the safety of the world’s infrastructure (citing evidence that crackers were already working on exploit code), and he actually ended up quitting ISS while at BlackHat just so he could present the information.

Understandably, Cisco is pissed. They’re considering suing him and already have a court order saying he can’t discuss the issue further. This is bound to go down as one of the more significant cases in the disclosure debate.