By now I’m sure you have read the story or heard about the “critical flaw” found in “the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic” (quoted from article).
The British government announced it yesterday (Tuesday) that the vulnerability in core Internet technology exists. If left unaddressed, it could allow hackers to knock computers offline and general cause widespread outages accross the ‘net.
Talking to co-workers, one of the guys said he “heard” that the exploit basically can cause routers to restart. Cisco also announced that their most popular routers are vulnerable to this flaw as well. Great Cisco only runs what…50% (conservatively) of the ‘net, with its routers?
I know our company is based on Cisco technology and so is our ISP.
So anyone hear about this, what are your thoughts? Should we be concerned for our businesses or how it effects our Internet based customer transactions?
The story I read is at:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040421/D822U6480.html
