It's been over a week since CERT released a seemingly endless list of devices and software products containing SNMP vulnerabilities discovered by Finnish University of Oulu researchers, and to date very little bad has happened, no doubt to the disappointment of . . .
It's been over a week since CERT released a seemingly endless list of devices and software products containing SNMP vulnerabilities discovered by Finnish University of Oulu researchers, and to date very little bad has happened, no doubt to the disappointment of most news agencies. As the story drops off the media radar screen, it's important to keep in mind that threats to your system can't be measured by the amount of mainstream press coverage they receive.

The PROTOS auditing suite developed by the Finnish researchers has been available for download at least since the original CERT advisory, and possibly longer. This means that while things are quiet, there's no question that industrious members of the blackhat development community are using it to advantage.