As part of their semiannual patch day, Cisco released seven security advisories describing different Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities affecting the IOS software that primarily ships with their routers. The seven flaws differ technically, and lie within various IOS components,
Cisco Patch Day: Multiple DoS Flaws in IOS
Cisco Cooks Up Bad Passwords by Forgetting to Salt Their Hashes
Earlier this week, Cisco released a security alert describing a weakness in one of the password encryption algorithms they use on certain Cisco IOS and IOS XE devices.