What Hackers Know About Your Switches
by
Eric Vyncke, Christopher Paggen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Contrary to popular belief, Ethernet switches are not inherently secure. Security vulnerabilities in Ethernet switches are multiple: from the switch implementation, to control plane protocols (Spanning Tree Protocol [STP], Cisco® Discovery Protocol [CDP], and so on) and data plane protocols, such...