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    Cisco Systems has taken legal action to keep a researcher from further discussing a hack into its router software.

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    Cisco and the security community are debating the reality of rootkits attacking the Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) after a researcher presented a proof of concept attack, which threatens Cisco routers and voice over IP phones.

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    The dispute over a presentation on hacking Cisco Systems' router software at the Black Hat security confab culminated in a legal settlement Thursday in the US.

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    The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) is advising all organisations with Cisco routers to update to the latest version of the vendor's operating system after serious vulnerabilities were exposed in the software last week.

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    Security experts warn that code which could be used to attack and crash Cisco routers has been posted to public mailing lists.

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    Security experts worried on Thursday that a flaw in Microsoft Windows and another in Cisco's ubiquitous network routers could lead to serious Internet attacks.

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