UK officials announced this week the arrest of a 20-year-old there suspected of stealing Cisco source code last May in a case of software theft involving integral Internet components, such as routers and switches, that rely on Cisco’s Internet Operating System (IOS). While the Cisco source code — posted to a Russian Web site and other Internet sources for a brief period last May — was not as widely available as an earlier source-code theft of Windows code from Microsoft, it was cause for concern among security experts.
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UK Suspect Arrested in Cisco Source Code Theft
Posted by: Jay Lyman September 20, 2004 01:24 PMUK officials announced this week the arrest of a 20-year-old there suspected of stealing Cisco source code last May in a case of software theft involving integral Internet components, such as routers and switches, that rely on Cisco’s Internet Operating System (IOS). While the Cisco source code — posted to a Russian Web site and other Internet sources for a brief period last May — was not as widely available as an earlier source-code theft of Windows code from Microsoft, it was cause for concern among security experts.