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More information released on Cisco code theft
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 11:00 GMT

More details about the computer code stolen from Cisco Systems were revealed yesterday, including new samples of the source code and information on how the code was distributed, four days after a Russian website reported news of the theft and posted sample code files to support the claim. Additional copies of Cisco code files for the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) may be circulating on the internet after the thief compromised a Sun Microsystems server on Cisco's network, then briefly posted a link to the source code files on a file server belonging to the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, according to Alexander Antipov, a security expert at Moscow security firm Positive Technologies.

Antipov downloaded more than 15Mbytes of the stolen code, which is estimated to be around 800Mbytes, after an individual using the online name "Franz" briefly posted a link to a 3Mbyte compressed version of the files in a private Internet Relay Chat (IRC) forum on Friday.

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