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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KM who wrote (56365)	10/22/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Mighty Mizzou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Something very interesting... OK ASND diehards, I got the poop on some interesting stuff. There is only one catch, you have to go to your local magazine rack to see it but it is worth checking out. Some interesting tidbits from this weeks Network World: 1. An article about how expensive Cisco equipment is and how Chambers defends it by saying if you want the name Cisco on it your gonna pay. I thought this article was very interesting in exposing the CSCO mindset / arrogance. MUST READ!!!! 2. An ad for ASND employment. This is the wildest ad I have ever seen. This alone makes the price of the rag worth it. You wont believe your eyes. It is impossible for me to describe, you have to see it for yourself. One note about the benefits is the term "great parties and competitive sports teams". They have positions open for virtually every department in ASND. ASND IS GROWING! GOTTA SEE IT! WHOA BABY! I absolutely compel dyed in the wool ASND investors to go out and get it. YOU GOTTA SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRUST ME!!!!!!!!!! IT BLEW ME AWAY!!!! Plus there is a lot of interesting info about the competition, all in all a good issue. No ASND news though, this rag tends to shy away from companies that dont advertise in it. Not always but usually. P.S. The CSCO article is mysteriously missing from the online Fusion edition. This is not unusual, many critical articles about CSCO dont make it to the online version. Below is one article that did make it online: Cisco moves to contain router bug By Rebecca Sykes IDG News Service, 10/16/98 A bug in Cisco Systems' networking software potentially can give hackers passwords for access to a network's routers. The bug is present in "the majority of Cisco's traditional router products," though not most of its LAN or WAN products, said John Bashinski, a customer engineer with Cisco's product security incident response team. If a hacker gets to the login prompt of affected routers and types in certain characters, they may be rewarded with fragments of what the last person who logged in typed, according to Bashinski. "It's not like you can get a transcript of what they typed ... but you can pieces of lines," Bashinski said. "Our biggest concern is that a fragment could contain a password." Fixes are available for the majority of affected products on the company's Web site, he said. The bug was pointed out to Cisco on Sept. 16 by a customer who was doing lab testing on a box, trying to find a different bug, Bashinski said. Cisco kept mum about it in order to have time to create fixes for all of the different software versions affected by the bug, he said. "We needed to get sufficient numbers of those versions out to cover people before we could make any announcement," Bashinski said. Bashinski declined to characterize the seriousness of the bug, but one analyst said it could be real trouble. Routers have "a critical role in the network," said Craig Mathias, principal at Farpoint Group in Ashland, Mass. "When (bugs occur) in a core product like this then it is definitely a concern," he said. However, bugs are an inevitable by-product of increasingly complex systems, he said. "Oftentimes these problems cannot be found until they get deployed," Mathias said. "That's how complicated these systems are."