Best Cisco Networking Hacked

The IT industry was thrilled by the news of hacking the world's best network equipment. Of course, we are talking about Cisco. The brand's reputation over the course of a couple of decades has led thousands of commercial and state-owned enterprises to trust Cisco.

200 of thousands of network switches around the globe are simply compromised. Moreover, the attack occurred on a machine code by transmitting an exploit. The attackers displayed the US flag on the monitor screens and advised users not to interfere with the election.

Best Cisco Networking Hacked

During the “debriefing”, it turned out that the equipment controlled by administrators using the Smart Install service panel was subjected to an attack. Fans of "hardcore" - who believe that Cisco only works with the console - were not affected. The attack was announced in Iran, the United States, India and China. The rest of the countries kept silent about the incident, or were not attacked.

Network administrators in European countries assure that the news about the hacking of Cisco equipment is bloated by the media.

Hundreds of examples are given when, during the period from 2014 to 2017, the best Cisco network equipment was attacked. As professionals say, there is no reliable equipment. And millions of attacks are made daily, which simply remain invisible to the average user. Administrators, however, patch holes daily and download updated patches from manufacturers' websites.